Positivity issues for the pinch-technique gluon propagator and their resolution

Abstract

Although gauge-boson propagators in asymptotically-free gauge theories satisfy a dispersion relation, they do not satisfy the Källen-Lehmann (KL) representation because the spectral function changes sign. We argue that this is a simple consequence of asymptotic freedom. On the basis of the QED-like Ward identities of the pinch technique (PT) we claim that the product of the coupling $g^2$ and the scalar part $\hat{d}(q^2)$ of the PT propagator, which is both gauge invariant and renormalization-group invariant, can be factored into the product of the running charge ${\bar{g}}^2(q^2)$ and a term $\hat{H}(q^2)$ both of which satisfy the KL representation although their product does not. We show that this behavior is consistent with some simple analytic models that mimic the gauge-invariant PT Schwinger-Dyson equations (SDE) provided that the dynamic gauge boson mass is sufficiently large. The PT SDEs do not depend directly on the PT propagator through $\hat{D}$ but only through $\hat{H}$.

13 pages, revtex4. Same physics, shortened; version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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