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On gauge fixing aspects of the infrared behavior of Yang-Mills Green functions

The infrared behavior of propagators and vertices is derived for the maximally Abelian gauge and the Gribov-Zwanziger action relying on functional equations. The derivation and analysis of Dyson-Schwinger equations increase considerably in complexity when going beyond the standard Landau gauge fixing and the available tools have to be improved. For the derivation of the equations a computer program (DoDSE) was developed in order to handle the plethora of terms. The process of determining possible infrared solutions is abstracted to obtain further insight into the structure of the so-called infrared scaling solutions. It is found that a few simple steps suffice to determine possible infrared scaling relations directly from the action. For the maximally Abelian gauge an infrared enhanced diagonal gluon propagator is found, while the off-diagonal degrees of freedom are infrared suppressed. This is in agreement with the idea of Abelian infrared dominance. Furthermore, it is proven that SU(2) and higher SU(N) have the same infrared behavior, although the corresponding actions differ. Under a suitable truncation the Dyson-Schwinger equations are solved in the deep infrared to obtain values for the exponents of the power laws. Restricting the integration in field configuration space to the Gribov region of the Landau gauge with the Gribov-Zwanziger action leads to two qualitatively equivalent infrared solutions. In both cases the gluon propagator is infrared suppressed and the infrared enhanced ghost propagator dominates the Dyson-Schwinger equations. This result corroborates the conjecture by Zwanziger that the functional integration can be cut at the first Gribov horizon and only the applied boundary conditions are important. For one solution the Dyson-Schwinger equations reduce in the deep infrared exactly to those obtained with the usual Faddeev-Popov gauge fixing.