{QCD} in the Axial Gauge: Boundary Terms and Poincare Invariance

May, 1978
20 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 142 (1978) 157-176
  • Published: 1978
Report number:
  • COO-3075-191

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
Quantum chromodynamics is investigated in the axial gauge with particular attention to boundary terms. The Poincaré algebra has anomalies and closes only in the gauge-invariant physical sector. A simple method is proposed for dealing with the boundary condition E 3 a → 0 as x 3 → ∞ in a Hamiltonian formalism. It is found that the gauge potentials have physically meaningful non-trivial asymptotic behavior related to instanton effects. This presents an obstacle to perturbation theory.
  • QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS: FOUR-DIMENSIONAL
  • QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS: SU(N)
  • QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS: AXIAL GAUGE
  • FIELD EQUATIONS: BOUNDARY CONDITION
  • POTENTIAL: ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR
  • FIELD EQUATIONS: INSTANTON
  • INVARIANCE: LORENTZ
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