Mass Generation in Continuum SU(2) Gauge Theory in Covariant Abelian Gauges

Abstract

The local action of an SU(2) gauge theory in general covariant Abelian gauges and the associated equivariant BRST symmetry that guarantees the perturbative renormalizability of the model are given. I show that a global SL(2,R) symmetry of the model is spontaneously broken by ghost-antighost condensation at arbitrarily small coupling and leads to propagators that are finite at Euclidean momenta for all elementary fields except the Abelian ``photon''. The Goldstone states form a BRST-quartet. The mechanism eliminates the non-abelian infrared divergences in the perturbative high-temperature expansion of the free energy.

arXiv comment4 pages. Much improved argumentation based on a certain (spontaneously broken) SL(2,R) symmetry

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