TY - JOUR
T1 - Non-perturbative modification of the Faddeev-Popov formula and banishment of the naive vacuum
AU - Zwanziger, Daniel
N1 - Funding Information:
* Research supported in part by Nanonal Soence Foundanon grant no PHY-811-6102
PY - 1982/12/27
Y1 - 1982/12/27
N2 - It is shown that for a gauge theory with a semisimple Lie group, all gauge orbits intersect a hyperplane in A-space in a convex region Ω which is bounded in every direction. This bounded region is the configuration space of the theory and is the support of the euclidean or Coulomb gauge functional measure. It is shown that the domain of definition of the effective action Γ is Ω, and that it is a real concave function in Ω which approaches +∞ on the boundary of Ω. It is shown that flat and partially flat configurations, including the naive vacuum F(A) = 0, lie on the boundary of Ω and have effective action +∞.
AB - It is shown that for a gauge theory with a semisimple Lie group, all gauge orbits intersect a hyperplane in A-space in a convex region Ω which is bounded in every direction. This bounded region is the configuration space of the theory and is the support of the euclidean or Coulomb gauge functional measure. It is shown that the domain of definition of the effective action Γ is Ω, and that it is a real concave function in Ω which approaches +∞ on the boundary of Ω. It is shown that flat and partially flat configurations, including the naive vacuum F(A) = 0, lie on the boundary of Ω and have effective action +∞.
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U2 - 10.1016/0550-3213(82)90260-7
DO - 10.1016/0550-3213(82)90260-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0041082931
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 209
SP - 336
EP - 348
JO - Nuclear Physics, Section B
JF - Nuclear Physics, Section B
IS - 2
ER -