Yang-Mills theories in the light-cone gauge

Journal Article · Sun Apr 14 23:00:00 EST 1985 · Phys. Rev. D; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.31.2012· OSTI ID:5817990

Bassetto, A; Dalbosco, M; Lazzizzera, I; Soldati, R

We develop the Hamiltonian quantization of Yang-Mills theories in the light-cone gauge, obtaining the well-defined prescription for the gluon propagator, previously proposed in the literature. A Hilbert space with indefinite metric emerges in which the role of the residual gauge freedom is clarified. It is possible to define consistently a subspace with positive-semidefinite inner product where Gauss's law and Poincare covariance are recovered and the perturbative S matrix is unitary.

• Research Organization: Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Trento, Italy and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trieste, Italy
• OSTI ID: 5817990
• Journal Information: Phys. Rev. D; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev. D; (United States) Vol. 31:8; ISSN PRVDA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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