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Ghost-creating gauges in Yang-Mills theory

Jean Thierry-Mieg, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1985 - 
- Vol. 261, Iss: 1, pp 55-65
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In this paper, the authors study the ghost-antighost symmetry of the extended BRS equations, discuss the geometrical interpretation of the formalism and define a new class of gauges in which the ghost number is only conserved modulo two.
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This article is published in Nuclear Physics.The article was published on 1985-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 16 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: BRST quantization & Introduction to gauge theory.

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Renormalization of the Abelian Higgs-Kibble Model

C. Becchi, +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the perturbative renormalization of the abelian Higgs-Kibble model is studied within the class of renormalizable gauges which are odd under charge conjugation.
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Gauge string fields from the light cone

Warren Siegel, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1987 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a method for deriving general gauge-invariant field theories from light-cone representations of the Poincare algebra at x + = 0 is described.
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Nonperturbative properties of Yang-Mills theories

Markus Q. Huber, +1 more
- 03 Oct 2020 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the results of correlation functions in the Landau gauge obtained from their equations of motions are discussed and compared to the results obtained in other covariant and maximally Abelian gauges.
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Algorithmic derivation of Dyson-Schwinger equations

Reinhard Alkofer, +2 more
- 01 Jun 2009 - 
TL;DR: The Mathematica package DoDSE 1 is introduced which derives the Dyson–Schwinger equations graphically once the interactions of the theory are specified and is suitable for an implementation within a symbolic programming language.
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Nonperturbative properties of Yang-Mills theories

Markus Q. Huber, +1 more
- 15 Aug 2018 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the results of correlation functions in the Landau gauge obtained from their equations of motions are discussed and compared to the results obtained in other covariant and maximally Abelian gauges.
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Another BRS Transformation

Izumi Ojima
- 01 Aug 1980 - 
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Gauge theory of gravity and supergravity on a group manifold

Yuval Ne'eman, +2 more
- 01 May 1978 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a general coordinate transformation group and a hybrid gauge transformation, the anholonomized G.C.T.G. gauge, are introduced and a study is made of the construction of an action, including the introduction of a set of special 2 forms, the ''pseudo curvatures''.

Gauge theory of gravity and supergravity on a group manifold

Yuval Ne'eman, +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a general coordinate transformation group and a hybrid gauge transformation, the anholonomized G.C.T.G. gauge, are introduced and a study is made of the construction of an action, including the introduction of a set of special 2 forms, the ''pseudo curvatures''.
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Geometric description of extended BRS symmetry in superfield formulation

Loriano Bonora, +2 more
- 01 Jun 1981 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the Faddeev-Popov ghost fields appear as parameters of a gauge transformation in a suitable geometrical structure, a fibre bundle constructed over a 4+2 superspace with a suitable supergroup.
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Geometrical structure of Faddeev–Popov fields and invariance properties of gauge theories

Mariano Quiros, +4 more
- 01 Aug 1981 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors give a geometrical interpretation to the Faddeev-Popov ghost and antighost fields using the fiber bundle Pn−1.
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The authors study the ghost antighost symmetry of the extended BRS equations, discuss the geometrical interpretation of the formalism and define a new class of gauges in which the ghost number is only conserved modulo two. LThis work was supported by the Director, Office of Energy Research Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Division of High Energy Physics of the U. S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC0376SF00098.