scholarly journals Z(N) dependence of the pure Yang-Mills gluon propagator in the Landau gauge near Tc

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Silva ◽  
Orlando Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Gluon Propagator ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
Yang Mills

scholarly journals INFRARED-SUPPRESSED GLUON PROPAGATOR IN 4D YANG–MILLS THEORY IN A LANDAU-LIKE GAUGE

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (32) ◽  
pp. 2429-2438 ◽  
Author(s):  
ATTILIO CUCCHIERI ◽  
AXEL MAAS ◽  
TEREZA MENDES
Keyword(s):  
Finite Volume ◽  
Gluon Propagator ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
Coulomb Gauge ◽  
Dimensional Case ◽  
Gauge Parameter ◽  
Reflection Positivity ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Transverse Gluon

The infrared behavior of the gluon propagator is directly related to confinement in QCD. Indeed, the Gribov–Zwanziger scenario of confinement predicts an infrared vanishing (transverse) gluon propagator in Landau-like gauges, implying violation of reflection positivity and gluon confinement. Finite-volume effects make it very difficult to observe (in the minimal Landau gauge) an infrared suppressed gluon propagator in lattice simulations of the four-dimensional case. Here we report results for the SU(2) gluon propagator in a gauge that interpolates between the minimal Landau gauge (for gauge parameter λ equal to 1) and the minimal Coulomb gauge (corresponding to λ = 0). For small values of λ we find that the spatially-transverse gluon propagator D tr (0, |p|), considered as a function of the spatial momenta |p|, is clearly infrared suppressed. This result is in agreement with the Gribov–Zwanziger scenario and with previous numerical results in the minimal Coulomb gauge. We also discuss the nature of the limit λ→0 (complete Coulomb gauge) and its relation to the standard Coulomb gauge (λ = 0). Our findings are corroborated by similar results in the three-dimensional case, where the infrared suppression is observed for all considered values of λ.

scholarly journals Reflection positivity and complex analysis of the Yang–Mills theory from a viewpoint of gluon confinement

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kei-Ichi Kondo ◽  
Masaki Watanabe ◽  
Yui Hayashi ◽  
Ryutaro Matsudo ◽  
Yutaro Suda
Keyword(s):  
Complex Analysis ◽  
Gluon Propagator ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
Complex Conjugate ◽  
Reflection Positivity ◽  
Scalar Model ◽  
Physical Point ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Euclidean Region

Abstract In order to understand the confining decoupling solution of the Yang–Mills theory in the Landau gauge, we consider the massive Yang–Mills model which is defined by just adding a gluon mass term to the Yang–Mills theory with the Lorentz-covariant gauge fixing term and the associated Faddeev–Popov ghost term. First of all, we show that massive Yang–Mills model is obtained as a gauge-fixed version of the gauge-invariantly extended theory which is identified with the gauge-scalar model with a single fixed-modulus scalar field in the fundamental representation of the gauge group. This equivalence is obtained through the gauge-independent description of the Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism proposed recently by one of the authors. Then, we reconfirm that the Euclidean gluon and ghost propagators in the Landau gauge obtained by numerical simulations on the lattice are reproduced with good accuracy from the massive Yang–Mills model by taking into account one-loop quantum corrections. Moreover, we demonstrate in a numerical way that the Schwinger function calculated from the gluon propagator in the Euclidean region exhibits violation of the reflection positivity at the physical point of the parameters. In addition, we perform the analytic continuation of the gluon propagator from the Euclidean region to the complex momentum plane towards the Minkowski region. We give an analytical proof that the reflection positivity is violated for any choice of the parameters in the massive Yang–Mills model, due to the existence of a pair of complex conjugate poles and the negativity of the spectral function for the gluon propagator to one-loop order. The complex structure of the propagator enables us to explain why the gluon propagator in the Euclidean region is well described by the Gribov–Stingl form. We try to understand these results in light of the Fradkin–Shenker continuity between confinement-like and Higgs-like regions in a single confinement phase in the complementary gauge-scalar model.

scholarly journals Perturbative linearization of super-Yang-Mills theories in general gauges

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannes Malcha ◽  
Hermann Nicolai
Keyword(s):  
Large Class ◽  
Fourth Order ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Free Theory ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Functional Measure ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Jacobi Determinant

Abstract Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories can be characterized by a non-local and non-linear transformation of the bosonic fields (Nicolai map) mapping the interacting functional measure to that of a free theory, such that the Jacobi determinant of the transformation equals the product of the fermionic determinants obtained by integrating out the gauginos and ghosts at least on the gauge hypersurface. While this transformation has been known so far only for the Landau gauge and to third order in the Yang-Mills coupling, we here extend the construction to a large class of (possibly non-linear and non-local) gauges, and exhibit the conditions for all statements to remain valid off the gauge hypersurface. Finally, we present explicit results to second order in the axial gauge and to fourth order in the Landau gauge.

Infrared finiteness of the two-loop correction to the Chern–Simons term in the Yang–Mills–Chern–Simons theory

1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 344-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeong-Chuan Kao ◽  
Hsiang-Nan Li
Keyword(s):  
Effective Action ◽  
Background Field ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
Quantum Corrections ◽  
Simons Theory ◽  
Loop Correction ◽  
Loop Contribution ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Chern Simons ◽  
Chern Simons Theory

We show that the two-loop contribution to the coefficient of the Chern–Simons term in the effective action of the Yang–Mills–Chern–Simons theory is infrared finite in the background field Landau gauge. We also discuss the difficulties in verifying the conjecture, due to topological considerations, that there are no more quantum corrections to the Chern–Simons term other than the well-known one-loop shift of the coefficient.

scholarly journals On gauge independence for gauge models with soft breaking of BRST symmetry

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (30) ◽  
pp. 1450184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Reshetnyak
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Brst Symmetry ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
Functional Integral ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Gauge Models ◽  
S Matrix ◽  
Gauge Fixing ◽  
Dependent Parameter ◽  
Quantum Treatment

A consistent quantum treatment of general gauge theories with an arbitrary gauge-fixing in the presence of soft breaking of the BRST symmetry in the field–antifield formalism is developed. It is based on a gauged (involving a field-dependent parameter) version of finite BRST transformations. The prescription allows one to restore the gauge-independence of the effective action at its extremals and therefore also that of the conventional S-matrix for a theory with BRST-breaking terms being additively introduced into a BRST-invariant action in order to achieve a consistency of the functional integral. We demonstrate the applicability of this prescription within the approach of functional renormalization group to the Yang–Mills and gravity theories. The Gribov–Zwanziger action and the refined Gribov–Zwanziger action for a many-parameter family of gauges, including the Coulomb, axial and covariant gauges, are derived perturbatively on the basis of finite gauged BRST transformations starting from Landau gauge. It is proved that gauge theories with soft breaking of BRST symmetry can be made consistent if the transformed BRST-breaking terms satisfy the same soft BRST symmetry breaking condition in the resulting gauge as the untransformed ones in the initial gauge, and also without this requirement.

scholarly journals Renormalizability of the linearly broken formulation of the BRST symmetry in the presence of the Gribov horizon in Landau gauge Euclidean Yang-Mills theories

2011 ◽  
Vol 83 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. L. Capri ◽  
A. J. Gómez ◽  
M. S. Guimaraes ◽  
V. E. R. Lemes ◽  
S. P. Sorella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brst Symmetry ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
Yang Mills

THE CONFINEMENT MECHANISM IN YANG–MILLS THEORY?

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (06) ◽  
pp. 447-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSE A. MAGPANTAY
Keyword(s):  
Gluon Propagator ◽  
Statistical Treatment ◽  
Gauge Condition ◽  
Classical Solutions ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Effective Dynamics ◽  
Gauge Fixing ◽  
Parallel Surfaces ◽  
Nonlinear Gauge

Using the recently proposed nonlinear gauge condition [Formula: see text] we show the area law behavior of the Wilson loop and the linear dependence of the instantaneous gluon propagator. The field configurations responsible for confinement are those in the nonlinear sector of the gauge-fixing condition (the linear sector being the Coulomb gauge). The nonlinear sector is actually composed of "Gribov horizons" on the parallel surfaces ∂ · Aa=fa≠0. In this sector, the gauge field [Formula: see text] can be expressed in terms of fa and a new vector field [Formula: see text]. The effective dynamics of fa suggests nonperturbative effects. This was confirmed by showing that all spherically symmetric (in 4-D Euclidean) fa(x) are classical solutions and averaging these solutions using a Gaussian distribution (thereby treating these fields as random) lead to confinement. In essence the confinement mechanism is not quantum mechanical in nature but simply a statistical treatment of classical spherically symmetric fields on the "horizons" of ∂ · Aa=fa(x) surfaces.

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