It is possible, however, to modify the action, such that methods such as Feynman diagrams will be applicable by adding ghost fields which break the gauge symmetry.

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The Feynman–'t Hooft gauge is usually the simplest gauge for this purpose, and is assumed for the rest of this article. Biography: Elly Griffiths is the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries and the Brighton Mysteries. The path integrals overcount field configurations corresponding to the same physical state; the measure of the path integrals contains a factor which does not allow obtaining various results directly from the action. This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. The exact form or formulation of ghosts is dependent on the particular gauge chosen, although the same physical results must be obtained with all gauges since the gauge one chooses to carry out calculations is an arbitrary choice.

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It was followed by The Postscript Murders, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and Bleeding Heart Yard. displaystyle \int {\mathcal {D}}[A]\exp i\int \mathrm {d} The ghost fields do not correspond to any real particles in external states: they appear as virtual particles in Feynman diagrams – or as the absence of some gauge configurations.