@Article{Aguilar_etal2023, author="Aguilar, A. C. and Ferreira, M. N. and Oliveira, B. M. and Papavassiliou, J. and Santos, L. R.", title="Schwinger poles of the three-gluon vertex: symmetry and dynamics", journal="European Physical Journal C", year="2023", publisher="Springer", volume="83", number="10", pages="889 - 20pp", abstract="The implementation of the Schwinger mechanism endows gluons with a nonperturbative mass through the formation of special massless poles in the fundamental QCD vertices; due to their longitudinal character, these poles do not cause divergences in on-shell amplitudes, but induce detectable effects in the Green{\textquoteright}s functions of the theory. Particularly important in this theoretical setup is the three-gluon vertex, whose pole content extends beyond the minimal structure required for the generation of a gluon mass. In the present work we analyze these additional pole patterns by means of two distinct, but ultimately equivalent, methods: the Slavnov-Taylor identity satisfied by the three-gluon vertex, and the nonlinear Schwinger-Dyson equation that governs the dynamical evolution of this vertex. Our analysis reveals that the Slavnov-Taylor identity imposes strict model-independent constraints on the associated residues, preventing them from vanishing. Approximate versions of these constraints are subsequently recovered from the Schwinger-Dyson equation, once the elements responsible for the activation of the Schwinger mechanism have been duly incorporated. The excellent coincidence between the two approaches exposes a profound connection between symmetry and dynamics, and serves as a nontrivial self-consistency test of this particular mass generating scenario.", optnote="WOS:001118963200001", optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=5861), last updated on Mon, 08 Jan 2024 08:21:26 +0000", issn="1434-6044", doi="10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12058-w", opturl="https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16283", opturl="https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12058-w", language="English" }