The Hamiltonian structure of Yang-Mills theories and instantons. II (Q1117519): Difference between revisions

The formalism of constraints, reviewed in paper I, is applied to Yang- Mills theory to determine the physical phase space. This turns out to be the cotangent bundle of orbit space, the space of gauge inequivalent potentials. Self-dual configurations are not Hamiltonian with respect to the symplectic structure inherited from the general system.