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Perturbative Yang-Mills theory without Faddeev-Popov ghost fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-03-22 v2

Abstract

A modifed Faddeev-Popov path integral density for the quantization of Yang-Mills theory in the Feynman gauge is discussed, where contributions of the Faddeev-Popov ghost fields are replaced by multi-point gauge field interactions. An explicit calculation to O(g2)O(g^2) shows the equivalence of the usual Faddeev-Popov scheme and its modified version.

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@article{arxiv.1712.10302,
  title  = {Perturbative Yang-Mills theory without Faddeev-Popov ghost fields},
  author = {Helmuth Huffel and Danijel Markovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.10302},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

5 pages, 1 table. Extended version accepted for publication in Physics Letters B

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