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Flow Equations for the Relevant Part of the Pure Yang-Mills Action

U. Ellwanger, M. Hirsch, A. Weber

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9506019

Abstract

Wilson's exact renormalization group equations are derived and integrated for the relevant part of the pure Yang-Mills action. We discuss in detail how modified Slavnov-Taylor identities controle the breaking of BRST invariance in the presence of a finite infrared cutoff k through relations among different parameters in the effective action. In particular they imply a nonvanishing gluon mass term for nonvanishing k. The requirement of consistency between the renormalization group flow and the modified Slavnov- Taylor identities allows to control the self-consistency of truncations of the effective action.

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