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Construction of \(Y M_ 4\) with an infrared cutoff. (English) Zbl 0790.53056

Summary: We provide the basis for a rigorous construction of the Schwinger functions of the pure \(SU(2)\) Yang-Mills field theory in four dimensions (in the trivial topological sector) with a fixed infrared cutoff but no ultraviolet cutoff, in a regularized axial gauge. The construction exploits the positivity of the axial gauge at large field. For small fields, a different gauge, more suited to perturbative computations is used; this gauge and the corresponding propagator depends on large background fields of lower momenta. The crucial point is to control (in a non-perturbative way) the combined effect of the functional integrals over small field regions associated to a large background field and of the counterterms which restore the gauge invariance broken by the cutoff. We prove that this combined effect is stabilizing if we use cutoffs of a certain type in momentum space. We check the validity of the construction by showing that Slavnov identities (which express infinitesimal gauge invariance) do hold non-perturbatively.

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53Z05 Applications of differential geometry to physics
81T13 Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory
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