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arxiv: 1208.6477 · v4 · pith:MUPQL774new · submitted 2012-08-31 · ✦ hep-th

Quantization of gauge fields, graph polynomials and graph cohomology

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords gaugegraphpolynomialquantizationcorollacovariantfieldsgraphs
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We review quantization of gauge fields using algebraic properties of 3-regular graphs. We derive the Feynman integrand at n loops for a non-abelian gauge theory quantized in a covariant gauge from scalar integrands for connected 3-regular graphs, obtained from the two Symanzik polynomials. The transition to the full gauge theory amplitude is obtained by the use of a third, new, graph polynomial, the corolla polynomial. This implies effectively a covariant quantization without ghosts, where all the relevant signs of the ghost sector are incorporated in a double complex furnished by the corolla polynomial -we call it cycle homology- and by graph homology.

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