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Theta vacuum in different gauges

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

In some recent papers it is claimed that the physical significance of the vacuum angle theta for QCD-like theories depends on the chosen gauge condition. We criticise the arguments that were given in support of this claim, and show by explicit construction for the case of QED2_2 that and why they fail, confirming thereby the commonly accepted point of view.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9806210,
  title  = {Theta vacuum in different gauges},
  author = {Christoph Adam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9806210},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Latex file, 12 pages

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