Published December 15, 1986
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Journal article
Ghostless Feynman rules in non-Abelian gauge theories
Creators
- 1. Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Description
We have found two sets of Feynman rules for non-Abelian gauge theories in which ghosts do not appear. These Feynman rules are derived from the canonical formalism which has the advantage (over the path-integral formalism) of the propagators having explicit boundary conditions. These boundary conditions are not necessarily those of Feynman. The new Feynman rules are, however, equivalent to the conventional ones in the Feynman gauge. This demonstrates that ghosts can be eliminated at the cost of Feynman's boundary conditions
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Rev., D
- Journal Volume
- 34
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 3858-3862
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 18053370
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COUPLING CONSTANTS; FEYNMAN PATH INTEGRAL; FIELD THEORIES; GAUGE INVARIANCE; HAMILTONIANS; PROPAGATOR; QUANTIZATION; WAVE FUNCTIONS; YANG-MILLS THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- FUNCTIONS; INTEGRALS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; QUANTUM OPERATORS