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arXiv:hep-th/9508169·v1·High Energy Physics — Theory

QCD Heat Kernel in Covariant Gauge

E.I. Guendelman🇮🇱 · A.V. Leonidov🇷🇺 · V.A. Nechitailo🇮🇱 · D.A. Owen🇮🇱

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Abstract

We report the calculation of the fourth coefficient in an expansion of the heat kernel of a non-minimal, non-abelian kinetic operator in an arbitrary background gauge in arbitrary space-time dimension. The fourth coefficient is shown to bring a nontrivial gauge dependence due to the contribution of the lowest order off-shell gauge invariant structure.

Comments: 6 pages + title page, standart LaTeX

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