Path-dependent formulation of gauge theories and the origin of field copies in the non-Abelian case
- 15 June 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 21 (12) , 3413-3416
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.21.3413
Abstract
The introduction of path-dependent potentials, as new relevant objects, allows us to relate in a natural way the path-dependent formulation of gauge theories to other point-function formulations. The absence of field copies in a very general class of gauges is proven in a rather obvious geometric way.Keywords
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