Lattice gauge fields, principal bundles and the calculation of topological charge (Q1079214)
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Lattice gauge fields, principal bundles and the calculation of topological charge (English)
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1986
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The authors study SU(2) Yang-Mills gauge fields of a 4-dimensional simplicial lattice. They present an algorithm which computes the second Chern number (the topological charge) of the corresponding principal bundles directly from the lattice data. This algorithm only involves evaluation of \(4\times 4\) determinants and the solution of quadratic equations.
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Yang-Mills gauge fields
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simplicial lattice
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second Chern number
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topological charge
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algorithm
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