 Slavnov-Taylor identity

A Slavnov-Taylor identity is a BRST symmetry constraint relating correlation functions or interaction vertices in a gauge-fixed Non-Abelian gauge theory. Unlike a simple statement that every open gauge index is transverse, the general identities include Faddeev-Popov ghost fields. After putting external legs on shell and making all the other external states physical, they imply decoupling when one massless vector polarization vector is replaced by its four-momentum. They also control cancellations of auxiliary covariant components needed for physical unitarity.