Canonical quantization of two-dimensional gauge fields

DOI10.1142/S0217751X94001242MaRDI QIDQ2775201zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors J. E. Hetrick

Publication date 26 February 2002

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9305020

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: $SU(N)$ gauge fields on a cylindrical spacetime are canonically quantized via two routes revealing almost equivalent but different quantizations. After removing all continuous gauge degrees of freedom, the canonical coordinate $A_{m}u$ (in the Cartan subalgebra $h$) is quantized. The compact route, as in lattice gauge theory, quantizes the Wilson loop $W$, projecting out gauge invariant wavefunctions on the group manifold $G$. After a Casimir energy related to the curvature of $SU(N)$ is added to the compact spectrum, it is seen to be a subset of the non-compact spectrum. States of the two quantizations with corresponding energy are shifted relative each other, such that the ground state on $G$, $ch{i}_0(W)$, is the first excited state $Ps{i}_1(A_{m}u)$ on $h$. The ground state $Ps{i}_0(A_{m}u)$ does not appear in the character spectrum as its lift is not globally defined on $G$. Implications for lattice gauge theory and the sum over maps representation of two dimensional QCD are discussed.

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