GAUGE COVARIANT FERMION PROPAGATOR IN QUENCHED, CHIRALLY SYMMETRICAL QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS

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作者
DONG, ZH [1 ]
MUNCZEK, HJ [1 ]
ROBERTS, CD [1 ]
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[1] ARGONNE NATL LAB, DEPT PHYS, ARGONNE, IL 60439 USA
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10.1016/0370-2693(94)90180-5
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P1 [天文学];
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We discuss the chirally symmetric solution of the massless, quenched, Dyson-Schwinger equation for the fermion propagator in three and four dimensions. The solutions are manifestly gauge covariant. We consider a gauge covariance constraint on the fermion-gauge-boson vertex, which motivates a vertex Ansatz that both satisfies the Ward identity when the fermion self-mass is zero and ensures gauge covariance of the fermion propagator.
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页码:536 / 544
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