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Mike...

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:43 am

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Proca theory for a real massive vector boson is not gauge-invariant ;
is it renormalizable ?
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Hendrik van Hees...

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:30 am

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Mike wrote:

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Proca theory for a real massive vector boson is not gauge-invariant ;
is it renormalizable ?

I don't know what you mean. The nice thing is that a massive vector
boson can be treated as a U(1) gauge boson. It doesn't work for
non-abelian gauge theories, but for abelian it does:

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0305076

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