Towards a unified viewpoint of Gribov–Zwanziger and Serreau–Tissier gauge fixing
We investigate a unified Landau--gauge fixing that continuously interpolates between the viewpoints of the Serreau--Tissier (ST) copy-averaged formulation and the (Refined) Gribov--Zwanziger (RGZ) restriction to the first Gribov region. By combining the ST weight with a GZ-type horizon term and localizing both through the replica trick and the BRST-invariant $A_μ^h$ formulation, we obtain a single, local, BRST-invariant, power-counting renormalizable action. Algebraic renormalization shows that all counterterms are reabsorbed by a common set of field and parameter renormalizations, therefore the unification is algebraic rather than merely additive. The replica sector yields a radiatively generated gluon screening mass, while the RGZ parameters are fixed by the horizon and condensate gap equations; we also give infrared matching conditions that link both descriptions at small momentum. We present a compact BRST-superspace rewriting of the RGZ block and a simple hybrid superspace that hosts the ST replicas and RGZ side by side; these add no dynamics and organize the Ward-identity analysis. The resulting gluon propagator interpolates among the massive Faddeev--Popov--ST and the RGZ decoupling forms. This framework offers a controlled way to study how infrared Yang--Mills correlators depend on the balance between copy averaging and horizon suppression, and it suggests practical lattice tests through tunable copy weighting.
Authors
- R. C. Terin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4186-4695)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physics Letters B
- Published
- 2026-02-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140302
- Primary Topic
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
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