"Gauge invariant quantum variables in QCD" by Itzhak Bars and Frederic Green
 

Computer Science

Gauge invariant quantum variables in QCD

Itzhak Bars, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Frederic Green, Yale University

Abstract

We establish the gauge invariance property of recently proposed variables that lead to flux tubes in the strong coupling limit of quantum chromodynamics. We present a method for deriving the SU(N)1 ⊗ SU(N)2 ⊗ SU(N)3 algebra satisfied by these variables, which was previously guessed in an axial gauge formalism. We make use of Dirac brackets and apply our method to light-cone variables of similar nature. © 1979.