Physical and Nonstandard Gauges: Proceedings of a Workshop Organized at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Technical University, Vienna, Austria September 19–23, 1989

Introduction....Pages 2-2
Why canonical quantization is the only known way to quantize correctly....Pages 2-14
Canonical quantization of Yang-Mills theories in axial and planar gauges....Pages 15-25
BRST-approach to noncovariant gauges....Pages 26-32
Canonical quantization of gauge theories in axial gauges....Pages 33-40
Gauge invariance and BRS quantum field theory....Pages 41-51
Some aspects of the Fock-Schwinger and poincaré gauges....Pages 52-57
Introduction....Pages 60-60
Good and bad news concerning axial gauges....Pages 60-73
The temporal gauge: Where do we stand?....Pages 74-86
Unified-gauge formalism at two loops....Pages 87-101
Renormalization and the S- matrix in YM theory in axial gauges....Pages 102-115
Tests of gauge invariance in quantum local gauge field theories....Pages 116-126
The analytic, principal-value and Landshoff prescriptions for axial gauges....Pages 127-136
Trouble even with the Coulomb gauge....Pages 137-144
Temporal gauge propagator from the Coulomb gauge....Pages 145-149
Regularization and Feynman rules in noncovariant gauges....Pages 150-158
A criterion of consistency for gauge theories in the axial gauge....Pages 159-167
A check of the Lee-Ward identities in the planar gauge with the Leibbrandt-Mandelstam prescription....Pages 168-174
Introduction....Pages 176-176
Nonstandard gauges: A personal point of view....Pages 176-184
Gauge independence through extended BRS symmetry: Application to the light-cone gauge....Pages 185-194
Extended BRS-symmetry and renormalization in the axial gauge....Pages 195-201
Superaxial gauges....Pages 202-209
The Piguet-Sibold identities and the light-cone gauge....Pages 210-216
BRS techniques applied to the temporal-planar gauge with the vienna prescription: The dependence on the axial vectors....Pages 217-224
Comments on the proof of the renormalized action principle....Pages 225-231
On-shell compatibility of clashing gauges in quark condensate contributions to standard model selfenergies....Pages 232-239
Beyond perturbation theory in the axial gauge....Pages 240-248
Cancellation of 1/ n · .p -factors in light-cone gauge Yang-Mills theory....Pages 249-255
The gluon propagator in two dimensional space-time....Pages 256-260
Introduction....Pages 262-262
Hot gluon matter and physical gauges....Pages 262-271
Gluon response functions in noncovariant gauges....Pages 272-284
Towards a consistent calculation of the QCD plasmon damping constant'....Pages 285-295
Nonlocality, Coexistence of UV and IR Asymptotic Freedom and the Landau Damping of Hot QCD Plasma....Pages 296-302
The temporal axial gauge at finite temperature....Pages 303-310