An alternative method to account for the Gribov ambiguities in gauge theories
is presented. It is shown that, to eliminate Gribov ambiguities, at
infinitesimal level, it is required to break the BRST symmetry in a soft
manner. This can be done by introducing a suitable extra constraint that
eliminates the infinitesimal Gribov copies. It is shown that the present
approach is consistent with the well established known cases in the literature,
i.e., the Landau and maximal Abelian gauges. The method is valid for gauges
depending exclusively on the gauge field and is restricted to classical level.
However, occasionally, we deal with quantum aspects of the technique, which are
used to improve the results.Comment: 29 pp. No figures. Discussions added. Final version to appear in EPJ
