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Covariant Gauge Fixing and Canonical Quantization
D. G. C. McKeon
Theories that contain first class constraints possess gauge invariance which results in the necessity of altering the measure in the associated quantum mechanical path integral. If…
An Analysis of the First Order Form of Gauge Theories
N. Kiriushcheva, S. V. Kuzmin, D. G. C. McKeon
The first order form of a Maxwell theory and U(1) gauge theory in which a gauge invariant mass term appears is analyzed using the Dirac procedure. The form of the gauge transformat…
The Double Slit Experiment With Polarizers
M. Holden, D. G. C. McKeon, T. N. Sherry
The double slit experiment provides a standard way of demonstrating how quantum mechanics works. We consider modifying the standard arrangement so that a photon beam incident upon…
Non-Quadratic Gauge Fixing and Ghosts for Gauge Theories on the Hypersphere
F. T. Brandt, D. G. C. McKeon
It has been suggested that using a gauge fixing Lagrangian that is not quadratic in a gauge fixing condition is most appropriate for gauge theories formulated on a hypersphere. We…
Non-Trivial Ghosts and Second Class Constraints
Farrukh Chishtie, D. G. C. McKeon
In a model in which a vector gauge field is coupled to an antisymmetric tensor field possessing a pseudoscalar mass, it has been shown that all physical degrees…
Electrodynamics in a Background Chiral Field
F. T. Brandt, D. G. C. McKeon, A. Patrushev
We consider the one loop effective action in four dimensional Euclidean space for a background chiral field coupled to a spinor field. It proves possible to find an exact expressio…