The Principle of BRS Symmetry: An Alternative Approach to Yang-Mills Theories

Baulieu, L.; Thierry-Mieg, J.

doi:10.1016/0550-3213(82)90454-0

The Principle of BRS Symmetry: An Alternative Approach to Yang-Mills Theories

L. Baulieu
(
- Columbia U.
)
,
J. Thierry-Mieg
(
- Harvard U.
)

Jun, 1981

32 pages

Published in:

Nucl.Phys.B 197 (1982) 477-508

Published: 1982

DOI:

10.1016/0550-3213(82)90454-0

Report number:

CU-TP-196

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Postulating BRS and anti-BRS symmetry of the quantum Yang-Mills lagrangian and of the measure of the functional integral, we prove gauge invariance and renormalizability and recover the classical theory from the quantum one. We also give a heuristic interpretation of the BRS and anti-BRS symmetry. The most general BRS and anti-BRS admissible gauges are linear in the gauge field, but may depend non-linearly on the ghost fields.

GAUGE FIELD THEORY: YANG-MILLS
GAUGE FIELD THEORY: GHOST
GAUGE FIELD THEORY: PATH INTEGRAL
QUANTIZATION
FIELD THEORETICAL MODEL: RENORMALIZABLE
TRANSFORMATION: BECCHI-ROUET-STORA
INVARIANCE: GAUGE
APPROXIMATION: CLASSICAL
FEYNMAN GRAPH: HIGHER-ORDER
RENORMALIZATION: BETA FUNCTION

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