Inhomogeneous axial gauges

Journal Article · Fri Apr 15 04:00:00 EST 1983 · Phys. Rev. D; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.27.1830· OSTI ID:6032752

Burnel, A

Inhomogeneous axial gauges are investigated chiefly in the framework of free-field (Abelian) theory. According to the spacelike or timelike character of the fixed four-vector and the nature of the coupling between the Lagrangian multiplier and the gauge fields, these gauges involve 2, 3, 4, or even 5 degrees of freedom, of which only two are physical. Gauges with 4 or 5 degrees of freedom involve an indefinite-metric formalism which is p built with some details in complete parallelism with relativistic gauges. It is shown that the temporal gauges are not related to the Fermi gauge by a transformation A/sub ..mu..//sup prime/ = A/sub ..mu../+partial/sub ..mu../X. The absence of Faddeev-Popov ghosts in the non-Abelian case is also discussed as well as the nature of the (nxk)/sup -alpha/ singularities in the propagator.

• Research Organization: Universite de Liege, Service de Physique Theorique et Mathematique, Institut de Physique au Sart Tilman (B.5), B-4000 Liege 1, Belgium
• OSTI ID: 6032752
• Journal Information: Phys. Rev. D; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev. D; (United States) Vol. 27:8; ISSN PRVDA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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