nLab gauge fixing

Idea

See A first idea of quantum field theory the chapter Gauge fixing.

Examples

• temporal gauge

• Lorenz gauge

• Coulomb gauge

• Feynman gauge

• light cone gauge

• Wess-Zumino gauge

Related concepts

• gauge

• gauge group, gauge transformation

• spontaneously broken symmetry

• Gribov ambiguity

• gauge fixing fermion

• Nakanishi-Lautrup field, antighost field

• slice theorem

References

Discussion in BV-BRST formalism via gauge fixing Lagrangian densities includes

• Marc Henneaux, from section 8.2 on in Lectures on the Antifield-BRST formalism for gauge theories, Nuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplement) 18A (1990) 47-106 (pdf)

Discussion of the Peierls brackets (covariant phase space) after gauge fixing is discussed in

• Igor Khavkine, section 3.3 of Covariant phase space, constraints, gauge and the Peierls formula, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A, 29, 1430009 (2014) (arXiv:1402.1282)