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Lorentz-Covariant Quantization of Massive Non-Abelian Gauge Fields in The Hamiltonian Path-Integral Formalism

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-11-11 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The massive non-Abelian gauge fields are quantized Lorentz-covariantly in the Hamiltonian path-integral formalism. In the quantization, the Lorentz condition, as a necessary constraint, is introduced initially and incorporated into the massive Yang-Mills Lagrangian by the Lagrange multiplier method so as to make each temporal component of a vector potential to have a canonically conjugate counterpart. The result of this quantization is confirmed by the quantization performed in the Lagrangian path-integral formalism by applying the Lagrange multiplier method which is shown to be equivalent to the Faddeev-Popov approach.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0506101,
  title  = {Lorentz-Covariant Quantization of Massive Non-Abelian Gauge Fields in The Hamiltonian Path-Integral Formalism},
  author = {Jun-Chen Su},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0506101},
  year   = {2010}
}