Lecture Notes in Physics

Why canonical quantization is the only known way to quantize correctly.- Canonical quantization of Yang-Mills theories in axial and planar gauges.- BRST-approach to noncovariant gauges.- Canonical quantization of gauge theories in axial gauges.- Gauge invariance and BRS quantum field theory.- Some aspects of the Fock-Schwinger and poincare gauges.- Good and bad news concerning axial gauges.- The temporal gauge: Where do we stand?.- Unified-gauge formalism at two loops.- Renormalization and the S- matrix in YM theory in axial gauges.- Tests of gauge invariance in quantum local gauge field theories.- The analytic, principal-value and Landshoff prescriptions for axial gauges.- Trouble even with the Coulomb gauge.- Temporal gauge propagator from the Coulomb gauge.- Regularization and Feynman rules in noncovariant gauges.- A criterion of consistency for gauge theories in the axial gauge.- A check of the Lee-Ward identities in the planar gauge with the Leibbrandt-Mandelstam prescription.- Nonstandard gauges: A personal point of view.- Gauge independence through extended BRS symmetry: Application to the light-cone gauge.- Extended BRS-symmetry and renormalization in the axial gauge.- Superaxial gauges.- The Piguet-Sibold identities and the light-cone gauge.- BRS techniques applied to the temporal-planar gauge with the vienna prescription: The dependence on the axial vectors.- Comments on the proof of the renormalized action principle.- On-shell compatibility of clashing gauges in quark condensate contributions to standard model selfenergies.- Beyond perturbation theory in the axial gauge.- Cancellation of 1/n * .p-factors in light-cone gauge Yang-Mills theory.- The gluon propagator in two dimensional space-time.- Hot gluon matter and physical gauges.- Gluon response functions in noncovariant gauges.- Towards a consistent calculation of the QCD plasmon damping constant'.- Nonlocality, Coexistence of UV and IR Asymptotic Freedom and the Landau Damping of Hot QCD Plasma.- The temporal axial gauge at finite temperature.