Manifestly gauge invariant computations
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Using a gauge invariant exact renormalization group, we show how to compute the effective action, and extract the physics, whilst manifestly preserving gauge invariance at each and every step. As an example we give an elegant computation of the one-loop SU(N) Yang-Mills beta function, for the first time at finite N without any gauge fixing or ghosts. It is also completely independent of the details put in by hand, e.g. the choice of covariantisation and the cutoff profile, and, therefore, guides us to a procedure for streamlined calculations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0207154,
title = {Manifestly gauge invariant computations},
author = {Stefano Arnone and Antonio Gatti and Tim R. Morris},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0207154},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, 11 figures, talk presented at the fifth international Conference "RG2002", Strba, Slovakia