2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/55186Nonabelian gauge theories with a generic background field A_mu in nonlinear gauges due to Delbourgo and Jarvis are investigated. The A_mu-dependence is completely determined by the help of a linear differential equation which obtaines from the Kluberg-Stern-Zuber and the Lee identity. Its integration leads to a relation between the one-particle irreducible vertex functional in the background field A_mu and the corresponding functional for A_mu = 0. An analogous relation holds for the generating functional of the complete Green functions which, after restriction to physical Green functions, is used to confirm a result obtained by Rouet in the case of linear background gauge.10 pages, LATEXHigh Energy Physics - TheorySymmetry properties of massive gauge theories in nonlinear background gauges: Background dependence of Green functionstext