Abstract
Recently Parisi and Wu proposed a method of quantizing gauge fields whereby euclidean expectation values are obtained by relaxation to equilibrium of a stochastic process depending on an artificial fifth time parameter. In the present work the equilibrium distribution is determined directly, without reference to the artificial time, by a stationary condition which is an eigenfunction equation in the euclidean Hilbert space. The solution has a perturbative expansion which appears renormalizable by naive power counting. Because of gauge freedom, a free dimensionless gauge parameter appears in the theory although no gauge condition such as ∂ · A = 0 is imposed.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 259-269 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Nuclear Physics, Section B |
Volume | 192 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 23 1981 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics