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Auteurs principaux: Bucciotti, Bruno, Strocchi, Franco
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author Bucciotti, Bruno
Strocchi, Franco
author_facet Bucciotti, Bruno
Strocchi, Franco
contents The quantization of Yang-Mills field theories requires the introduction of a gauge fixing which leads to a violation of the Local Gauss Law described by the so-called Gauss operator. We discuss the local quantizations of Yang-Mills theories in terms of the possible Gauss operators, which are argued to have a more physical meaning than the gauge fixings. We focus the attention on the local quantizations which leave the global gauge group and a subgroup of local gauge transformations unbroken, as the Feynman quantization of quantum Electrodynamics, and show that in the non-abelian case such properties cannot be realized together with Lorentz covariance; thus, quite generally, one cannot have the structural properties of the Feynman quantization of Quantum Electrodynamics. By relaxing the condition of Lorentz covariance, we obtain a classification of Gauss operators, which satisfy gauge covariant conservation laws and generate non-trivial residual subgroups of local gauge transformations.
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spellingShingle A note on Gauss operators and quantizations of Yang-Mills theories
Bucciotti, Bruno
Strocchi, Franco
High Energy Physics - Theory
The quantization of Yang-Mills field theories requires the introduction of a gauge fixing which leads to a violation of the Local Gauss Law described by the so-called Gauss operator. We discuss the local quantizations of Yang-Mills theories in terms of the possible Gauss operators, which are argued to have a more physical meaning than the gauge fixings. We focus the attention on the local quantizations which leave the global gauge group and a subgroup of local gauge transformations unbroken, as the Feynman quantization of quantum Electrodynamics, and show that in the non-abelian case such properties cannot be realized together with Lorentz covariance; thus, quite generally, one cannot have the structural properties of the Feynman quantization of Quantum Electrodynamics. By relaxing the condition of Lorentz covariance, we obtain a classification of Gauss operators, which satisfy gauge covariant conservation laws and generate non-trivial residual subgroups of local gauge transformations.
title A note on Gauss operators and quantizations of Yang-Mills theories
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01492