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On the Yang-Mills wave functional in Coulomb gauge

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We investigate the dependence of the Yang-Mills wave functional in Coulomb gauge on the Faddeev-Popov determinant. We use a Gaussian wave functional multiplied by an arbitrary power of the Faddeev-Popov determinant. We show, that within the resummation of one-loop diagrams the stationary vacuum energy is independent of the power of the Faddeev-Popov determinant and, furthermore, the wave functional becomes field-independent in the infrared, describing a stochastic vacuum. Our investigations show, that the infrared limit is rather robust against details of the variational ans\"atze for the Yang-Mills wave functional. The infrared limit is exclusively determined by the divergence of the Faddeev-Popov determinant at the Gribov horizon.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0408237,
  title  = {On the Yang-Mills wave functional in Coulomb gauge},
  author = {H. Reinhardt and C. Feuchter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0408237},
  year   = {2009}
}

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