Connecting Green's Functions in an Arbitrary Pair of Gauges and an Application to Planar Gauges

Abstract

We establish a finite field-dependent BRS transformation that connects the Yang-Mills path-integrals with Faddeev-Popov effective actions for an arbitrary pair of gauges F and F'. We establish a result that relates an arbitrary Green's function [either a primary one or one that of an operator] in an arbitrary gauge F' to those in gauge F that are compatible to the ones in gauge F by its construction [in that the construction preserves expectation values of gauge-invariant observables]. We establish parallel results also for the planar gauge-Lorentz gauge connection.