Off-Shell Fields and Quantum Anomalies

Abstract

We use the formalism of quantum off-shell fields for the case of pure Yang-Mills fields. In this formalism one can compute in a systematic way the second order anomalies of the tree sector.

Lecture at Calimanesti conference on Quantum Field Theory and Hamiltonian Systems, 2010 (16 pages)

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