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Non decoupling ghosts in the light cone gauge

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The gist of using the light cone gauge lies in the well known property of ghosts decoupling. But from the BRST point of view this is a stringency since for the construction of a nilpotent operator (from a Lie algebra) the presence of ghosts are mandatory. We will show that this is a foible which has its origins in the very fact of using just one light cone vector (nμn_\mu) instead of working with both light cone vectors (nμn_\mu and mμm_\mu) to fulfill the light cone base vectors. This will break out ghost decoupling from theory but allowing now a consistent BRST theory for the light cone gauge.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0310094,
  title  = {Non decoupling ghosts in the light cone gauge},
  author = {Ricardo Bentin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0310094},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz

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