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Background Field Method On The Lattice Notes

The document discusses the application of the background field method in lattice gauge theory, specifically referencing Luscher's work on renormalization. It outlines the introduction of gauge fixing terms and BRS invariance, along with a step-by-step procedure for renormalizing the theory. Key steps include adding source terms, considering momentum space limits, and using power counting to derive expressions for the vertex functional.

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Background Field Method On The Lattice Notes

The document discusses the application of the background field method in lattice gauge theory, specifically referencing Luscher's work on renormalization. It outlines the introduction of gauge fixing terms and BRS invariance, along with a step-by-step procedure for renormalizing the theory. Key steps include adding source terms, considering momentum space limits, and using power counting to derive expressions for the vertex functional.

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Background Field Method on The Lattice Notes

Charles Beck
January 2025

I should note that the methods that Lüscher uses basically just involve taking
the proof of the renormalization of Lattice gauge theory in the three papers by
Reisz and proving that the background field method basically does not alter
the proof of renormalization. In section 5 of his 1995 paper, he treats the
introduction of the background field method. The idea is to take the background
field method into a standard Wilson action by taking the gauge links to be:

U (x, µ) = eg0 aqµ (x) eaBµ (x)

The advantage to this is that the relevant gauge transformations of the back-
ground fields take on a simple form:
1 n o
BµΛ (x) = ln Λ(x)eaBµ (x) Λ(x + aµ)−1
a
qµΛ (x) = Λ(x)qµ (x)Λ(x)−1

Luscher then introduces a gauge fixing term in his action, which is defined in
terms of covariant derivatives on the quantum fields, and a Fadeav Popov term
defined in terms of anticommuting FP ghosts:
X 
Sgf [B, q] = −λ0 a4 tr Dµ∗ qµ (x)Dν∗ qν (x)
x∈Λ

As well as:

SF P [B, q, c, c] =
X 
− 2a4 tr Dµ c(x) J(g0 aqµ (x))−1 Dµ + g0 Adqµ (x) c(x)
 

x∈Λ

The matrix J is the differential of a geometric exponential mapping. After


presenting the theory, Luscher demonstrates that the theory obeys symmetry
under a BRS variation. For a function F [q, c, c] defined through:
X δF ∂F ∂F

δBRS F = a4 δBRS qµa a + δBRS ca a + δBRS ca a
δqµ ∂c ∂c
x∈Λ

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Where the transformations of the fields are:

δBRS qµ = J(g0 aqµ )−1 Dµ + g0 Adqµ c


 

δBRS c = λ0 Dµ∗ qµ
δBRS c = −g0 c2

Under the BRS varriation, the total action remains unchanged meaning that
this symmetry is in fact a recreation of the symmetry we would expect.

He then provides a one page description of the procedure one would take to
renormalize the theory. The following steps are required:

1) You will first add the source terms to the functional integral by coupling
them to the stochastic term and the anticommutating ghost fields. We will
then define the effective action using the free energy ln Z[J].

2) We then consider the limit of the theory in non-exceptional momentum space


and send the lattice spacing to 0. (Here he relies on the results I talked about
last time in Reisz.)

3) Using BRS invariance of the lattice theory, one can arrive at the identity
(He’s leaning on Reisz (1989) for this. He doesn’t say it but, I am quite suspect
that this is the case.):
X  δΓR δΓR δΓR δΓR

4 a a ΓR
a − + λ(Dµ Qµ ) a =0
δQaµ δKµa δC a δLa δC
x∈Λ

4) Luscher than asserts that from power counting one can obtain the following
expression for the singular part of the vertex functional:
X
∆ΓR,n = a4 {c1 O1 (x) + c2 O2 (x) + c3 O3 (x)}
x∈Λ

Where the Ok (x) are local lattice fields which will reduce to continuum fields in
the limit a → 0. The coefficients ck are polynomials in ln(aµ).

5) One can then use the ordinary methods of renormalization in the background
field method to establish the renormalizability of the theory.

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