Abstract
The UV-finite part of the vacuum polarization tensor Πμβab in the temporalplanar gauge is computed using the Leibbrandt-Vienna (or generalized Leibbrandt-Mandelstam) prescription for the gauge dependent poles of the gauge-field propagator. It is shown that Πμνab has analytic properties that differ dramatically from those familiar in covariant gauges. By explicit calculation it is also shown that graph-by-graph unitarity is not satisfied. Comments on the absence of non-local counterterms in Burnel and Caprasse's formulation of the Leibbrandt-Vienna prescriptions are given. © 1992.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 442-447 |
Journal | Physics Letters B |
Volume | 292 |
Issue number | 3-4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Oct 1992 |