A NONPRINCIPAL VALUE PRESCRIPTION FOR THE TEMPORAL GAUGE

A nonprincipal value prescription is used to define the spurious singu larities of Yang-Mills theory in the temporal gauge. Typical one-loop dimensionally regularized temporal-gauge integrals in the prescription are explicitly calculated, and a regularization for the spurious gaug e divergences is introduced. The divergent part of the one-loop self-e nergy is shown to be local and has the same form as that in the spatia l axial gauge with the principal-value prescription. The renormalizati on of the theory is also briefly mentioned.