title: Verifying the Kugo-Ojima confinement criterion in Landau gauge Yang-Mills theory.
abstract: Expanding the Landau gauge gluon and ghost two-point functions in a power series we investigate their infrared behavior. The corresponding powers are constrained through the ghost Dyson-Schwinger equation by exploiting multiplicative renormalizability. Without recourse to any specific truncation we demonstrate that the infrared powers of the gluon and ghost propagators are uniquely related to each other. Constraints for these powers are derived, and the resulting infrared enhancement of the ghost propagator signals that the Kugo-Ojima confinement criterion is fulfilled in Landau gauge Yang-Mills theory.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Physics, Tübingen University, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Watson
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Alkofer