Renormalisability of the SU(n) Gauge Theory with Massive Gauge Bosons

Abstract

The problem of renormalisability of the SU(n) theory with massive gauge bosons is reinverstigated in the present work. We expound that the quantization under the Lorentz condition caused by the mass term of the gauge fields leads to a ghost action which is the same as that of the usual SU(n) Yang-Mills theory in the Landau gauge. Furthermore, we clarify that the mass term of the gauge fields cause no additional complexity to the Slavnov-Taylor identity of the generating functional for the regular vertex functions and does not change the equations satisfied by the divergent part of this generating functional. Finally, we prove that the renormalisability of the theory can be deduced from the renormalisability of the Yang-Mills theory.