Finite Field-Dependent BRST-antiBRST Transformations: Jacobians and Application to the Standard Model

TL;DR

This paper extends finite BRST-antiBRST transformations, evaluates their Jacobians, and applies these to the Standard Model, including modifications to the Gribov--Zwanziger theory for gauge fixing and gauge independence.

Contribution

It introduces new classes of finite BRST-antiBRST transformations with arbitrary parameters and applies them to the Standard Model, extending gauge fixing and Gribov horizon functional formulations.

Findings

Derived Jacobians for linear and polynomial transformations.

Identified extra contributions to the quantum action from arbitrary parameter transformations.

Extended Gribov--Zwanziger theory to the Standard Model with gauge-independent horizon functional.

Abstract

We continue our research Nucl.Phys B888, 92 (2014); Int. J. Mod. Phys. A29, 1450159 (2014); Phys. Lett. B739, 110 (2014); Int. J. Mod. Phys. A30, 1550021 (2015) and extend the class of finite BRST-antiBRST transformations with odd-valued parameters $\lambda_{a}$, $a=1,2$, introduced in these works. In doing so, we evaluate the Jacobians induced by finite BRST-antiBRST transformations linear in functionally-dependent parameters, as well as those induced by finite BRST-antiBRST transformations with arbitrary functional parameters. The calculations cover the cases of gauge theories with a closed algebra, dynamical systems with first-class constraints, and general gauge theories. The resulting Jacobians in the case of linearized transformations are different from those in the case of polynomial dependence on the parameters. Finite BRST-antiBRST transformations with arbitrary parameters induce an extra contribution to the quantum action, which cannot be absorbed into a change of the gauge. These transformations include an extended case of functionally-dependent parameters that implies a modified compensation equation, which admits non-trivial solutions leading to a Jacobian equal to unity. Finite BRST-antiBRST transformations with functionally-dependent parameters are applied to the Standard Model, and an explicit form of functionally-dependent parameters $\lambda_{a}$ is obtained, providing the equivalence of path integrals in any $3$-parameter $R_{\boldsymbol{\xi}}$-like gauges. The Gribov--Zwanziger theory is extended to the case of the Standard Model, and a form of the Gribov horizon functional is suggested in the Landau gauge, as well as in $R_{\boldsymbol{\xi}}$-like gauges, in a gauge-independent way using field-dependent BRST-antiBRST transformations, and in $R_{\boldsymbol{\xi}}$-like gauges using transverse-like non-Abelian gauge fields.