General Procedure of Gauge Fixings and Ghosts

Abstract

We revisit the general procedure of gauge fixings and ghosts based on BRST invariance principle. It is shown that when this is applied to the higher-derivative gauge fixings, it gives the correct structure of gauge fixings and ghosts including "third ghost", previously derived at one-loop level. This procedure is solely based on the symmetry principle and is valid at full order.

8 pages, v2: minor corrections

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