16.1 Aronwitt-Fickler gauge. Perform the Faddeev-Popov quantization of Yang-Mills theory in the gauge A3a=0, and write the Feynman rules. Show that there are are no propagating ghosts, and that the gauge field is reduced to two positive-metric degrees of freedom. (Although the gauge condition violates Lorentz invariance, this symmetry is restored in the calculation of gauge-invariant S-matrix elements.)
16.2 Scalar field with non-Abelian charge. Consider a non-Abelian gauge theory with gauge group G. Couple to this theory a complex scalar field in the representation r.
(a) Show that the Feynman rules for the scalar field are a simple modification of the Feynman rules displayed for scalar QED in Problem 9.1(a).
(b) Compute the contribution of this scalar field to the β function, and show that the full β function for this theory is
β(g)=−(4π)2g3(311C2(G)−31C(r)).
习题 16.2 - 解答
(a) 标量场的费曼规则
考虑规范群为 G 的非阿贝尔规范理论,耦合一个处于表示 r 的复标量场 ϕ。该标量场的拉格朗日量为:
Lscalar=(Dμϕ)†(Dμϕ)−m2ϕ†ϕ
其中协变导数为 Dμ=∂μ−igAμatra,这里 tra 是群 G 在表示 r 下的生成元。
16.3 Counterterm relations. In Section 16.5, we computed the divergent parts of δ1,δ2, and δ3. It is a good exercise to compute the divergent parts of the remaining counterterms in Eq. (16.88) to one-loop order in the Feynman-'t Hooft gauge, and to explicitly verify that the counterterm relations (16.89) are consistent with the removal of ultraviolet divergences.
(a) The ghost counterterms are particularly easy to compute. Work out δ1c and δ2c, and show that the divergent part of their difference equals the divergent part of δ1−δ2. This gives a derivation of asymptotic freedom that is slightly easier than the one in Section 16.5.
(b) Compute the counterterm for the 3-gauge-boson vertex and verify the first equality in (16.89).
(c) Compute the counterterm for the 4-gauge-boson vertex and find, when the smoke clears, the second relation in (16.89).