2014/12/11 by Gary B. Tupper, Tupper, Gary B.
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1412.5959
9 pages
arxiv created 2014/12/11 · openalex publication_date 2014/12/11 · arxiv updated 2014/12/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
By construction, gauge theories require gauge fixing. In conventional approaches to spontaneously broken gauge theories, the choice of the Unitary ('t Hooft) gauge involves the sacrifice of manifest renormalizability (unitarity). It is shown that with a suitable modification of the background field gauge condition, the background field formalism allows manifest unitarity and renormalizability in a single framework.