Colour, copies and confinement

Anton Ilderton, Martin Lavelle, David McMullan

Published 2007-01-18, updated 2007-03-12Version 2

In this paper we construct a wide class of Gribov copies in Coulomb gauge SU(2) gauge theory. Infinitesimal copies are studied in some detail and their non-perturbative nature is made manifest. As an application it is shown that the copies prevent a non-perturbative definition of colour charge.