Algebraic renormalization of the BF Yang-Mills Theory

Abstract

We discuss the quantum equivalence, to all orders of perturbation theory, between the Yang-Mills theory and its first order formulation through a second rank antisymmetric tensor field. Moreover, the introduction of an additional nonphysical vector field allows us to interpret the Yang-Mills theory as a kind of perturbation of the topological BF model.

14 pages, some references and acknowledgments added, version to appear in Phys.Lett.B

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• Feynman rules and beta-function for the BF Yang-Mills Theory

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