The problem of gauge fixing for spherically symmetric Yang-Mills fields

✍ Scribed by D Schütte

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1022 KB
• Volume: 215
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-4916
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-4916(92)90299-2

✦ Synopsis

The Yang-Mills theory restricted by spherical symmetry is investigated in view of the problem of gauge fixing. We show that-in contrast to the Coulomb gauge-an extended Schwinger gauge provides a completely consistent representation of gauge orbits with trivial winding number without any Gribov singularities, The structure of the classical gauge fixed theory is revealed showing a discrepancy to the standard expectation. The temporal gauge quantization with extended Schwinger gauge fixing in the sense of Christ and Lee is shown to display the "e-parameter" symmetry in a manifest way.