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Path integral approach to residual gauge fixing

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, ISSN: 0556-2821, Vol: 70, Issue: 12
2004
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In this paper we study the question of residual gauge fixing in the path integral approach for a general class of axial-type gauges including the light-cone gauge. We show that the two cases-axial-type gauges and the light-cone gauge-lead to very different structures for the explicit forms of the propagator. In the case of the axial-type gauges, fixing the residual symmetry determines the propagator of the theory completely. On the other hand, in the light-cone gauge there is still a prescription dependence even after fixing the residual gauge symmetry, which is related to the existence of an underlying global as well as local symmetry.

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