Landau gauge ghost and gluon propagators and the Faddeev-Popov operator spectrum

In this talk we report on a recent lattice investigation of the Landau gauge gluon and ghost propagators in pure SU(3) lattice gauge theory with a special emphasis on the Gribov copy problem. In the (infrared) region of momenta q(2) <= 0.3 GeV2 we find the corresponding MOM scheme running coupling alpha(s)(q(2)) to rise in q. We also report on a first SU(3) computation of the ghost-gluon vertex function showing that it deviates only weakly from being constant. In addition we study the spectrum of low-lying eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Faddeev-Popov operator as well as the spectral representation of the ghost propagator.