An angle representation of QCD

Abstract

For the sake of eliminating gauge variant degrees of freedom we discuss the way to introduce angular variables in the hamiltonian formulation of QCD. On the basis of an analysis of Gauss' law constraints a particular choice is made for the variable transformation from gauge fields to angular field variables. The resulting formulation is analogous to the one of Bars in terms of corner variables and it is closely related to the hamiltonian lattice QCD formulation. Therefore the corner or angle formulation may constitute an useful starting point for the investigation of the low energy properties of QCD in terms of gauge invariant degrees of freedom.