Gauge Theory Without Ghosts

1995/11/15 by Bryce DeWitt, DeWitt, Bryce, Carmen Molina-Paris +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9511109

8 pages, uses revtex

arxiv created 1995/11/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

A quantum effective action for gauge field theories is constructed that is gauge invariant and independent of the choice of gauge breaking terms and the ghost determinant.

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