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Faddeev–Popov ghost field

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An anticommuting auxiliary field introduced in covariant quantization of non-Abelian gauge theories; it does not represent an asymptotic physical particle.

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Gauge fixingFaddeev–Popov ghost field

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Faddeev–Popov ghosts represent the gauge-fixing determinant in covariant non-Abelian perturbation theory.

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Apply a standard functorial or canonical construction whose output is not merely a reduct of the input and is not generally an equivalent presentation of the same object.

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