I am trying to show the invariance of the following Yang Mills Lagrangian:
$$L= -\frac{1}{4} F^a_{\mu \nu} F_a^{\mu\nu} + J_a^\mu A_\mu^a$$
under the following gauge transformation ($\theta$ being a rotation in color space and $g$ related to the structure constant):
$$L \rightarrow -\frac{1}{4} \left( F^a_{\mu\nu} +\epsilon ^a_{jk} \theta^j F^k_{\mu \nu}\right)\left(F_a^{\mu\nu} + e_a^{jk}\theta_j F_k^{\mu\nu}\right) + \left( J_a^\mu + \epsilon_a^{jk} \theta_j J_k^\mu \right) \left( A_\mu^a + \epsilon^a_{jk}\theta^jA_\mu^k -\frac{1}{g} \partial^\mu \theta^a \right),$$
where each term is now transformed accordingly.
I was able to simplify the above to and obtain:
$$L \rightarrow -\frac{1}{4} \left( F^a_{\mu\nu}F_a^{\mu\nu} + \epsilon^a_{jk} \theta^j F^k_{\mu\nu} F_a^{\mu\nu} \epsilon_a^{j' k'} \theta_{j'} F_{k'}^{\mu\nu}\right) + J_a^\mu A_\mu^a - J_a^\mu \frac{1}{g} \partial^\mu \theta^a + \epsilon_a^{jk} \theta_j J_k^\mu \epsilon^a_{j'k'} \theta^{j'}A_\mu^{k'} - \epsilon_a^{jk} \theta_{j} J_k^{\mu}\frac{1}{g} \partial^\mu \theta^a.$$
How could I possibly reduce it to a form similar to the original, untransformed Lagrangian? There are about 4 terms I can't get rid of, though it has been suggested to me that I use the equation of motion of YM, which I have handy but can't seem to use them appropriately. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also note that I may end up with a boundary term which would vanish when varying the action, thus possibly giving me say 3 terms instead of the original 2 (which is fine, though I can't identify them yet).
This post imported from StackExchange Physics at 2014-07-01 10:33 (UCT), posted by SE-user user44212