Deconfinement to confinement by generalizing BRST symmetry on the sphere

Abstract

Recently, it has been shown that the theory in the quadratic gauge on 4-sphere, [Formula: see text] consists of two phases namely, the confined and the deconfined phases. A suitable finite field-dependent Becchi–Rouet–Stora–Tyutin (FFBRST) transformation interrelates two different gauge fixed theories. In this paper, we use the FFBRST technique on the curved space for the first time and elaborate a novel application of it. We propose two different formulations of this technique that transform the deconfined phase action on sphere to the confined phase action on sphere inside the quadratic gauge. Both proposed passages change the phase with BRST invariance to the phase without BRST invariance unlike usual connections where the FFBRST operation leaves the BRST symmetry intact and there is a unique field theoretic essence of them, which makes them particularly important to study. Thus, the two different field redefinitions act as a new mechanism that execute phase transition between two real QCD phases on 4-sphere other than ghost condensation process.