Abstract
The quantization of non-Abelian gauge theories around arbitrary field configurations is considered. We find that the functional integral may be consistently expanded about any field which is sufficiently close to a constrained minimum. A unified treatment of gauge fixing, zero modes and constraints is presented in detail. All problems associated with gauge copies and similar double-counting phenomena are formally removed by further restrictions placed on the space of fluctuations; these restrictions have no effect on the perturbative expansion about a given field.
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