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QCD Heat Kernel in Covariant Gauge

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We report the calculation of the fourth coefficient in an expansion of the heat kernel of a non-minimal, non-abelian kinetic operator in an arbitrary background gauge in arbitrary space-time dimension. The fourth coefficient is shown to bring a nontrivial gauge dependence due to the contribution of the lowest order off-shell gauge invariant structure.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9508169,
  title  = {QCD Heat Kernel in Covariant Gauge},
  author = {E. I. Guendelman and A. V. Leonidov and V. A. Nechitailo and D. A. Owen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9508169},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages + title page, standart LaTeX

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