Gouranga C Nayak ∗ 1 Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA Abstract In this paper we derive a gauge fixing identity by varying the covariant gauge fixing term in Z[A, J, η, η̄] in the background field method of QCD in pure gauge. Using this gauge fixing identity we establish a relation between Z[J, η, η̄] in QCD and Z[A, J, η, η̄] in background field method of QCD in ...