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Gribov no-pole condition, Zwanziger horizon function, Kugo-Ojima confinement criterion, boundary conditions, BRST breaking and all that

D. Dudal, S. P. Sorella, N. Vandersickel, and H. Verschelde
Phys. Rev. D 79, 121701(R) – Published 26 June 2009

Abstract

We aim to offer a kind of unifying view on two popular topics in the studies of nonperturbative aspects of Yang-Mills theories in the Landau gauge: the so-called Gribov-Zwanziger approach and the Kugo-Ojima confinement criterion. Borrowing results from statistical thermodynamics, we show that imposing the Kugo-Ojima confinement criterion as a boundary condition leads to a modified yet renormalizable partition function. We verify that the resulting partition function is equivalent with the one obtained by Gribov and Zwanziger, which restricts the domain of integration in the path integral within the first Gribov horizon. The construction of an action implementing a boundary condition allows one to discuss the symmetries of the system in the presence of the boundary. In particular, the conventional Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin symmetry is softly broken.

  • Received 3 April 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.79.121701

©2009 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

D. Dudal1,*, S. P. Sorella2,†, N. Vandersickel1,‡, and H. Verschelde1,§

  • 1Ghent University, Department of Mathematical Physics and Astronomy, Krijgslaan 281-S9, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
  • 2Departamento de Física Teórica, Instituto de Física, UERJ - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rua São Francisco Xavier 524, 20550-013 Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

  • *david.dudal@ugent.be
  • sorella@uerj.br
  • nele.vandersickel@ugent.be
  • §henri.verschelde@ugent.be

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Vol. 79, Iss. 12 — 15 June 2009

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