Yang-Mills and Dirac fields in a bag, constraints and reduction (Q1907628)

The paper under review studies the structure of solutions to the Yang-Mills-Dirac equations in a bounded contractible domain in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) with bag boundary conditions. It is proved that the action of the gauge group on the phase space is proper and admits slices. Since the linearized momentum map is not an elliptic operator, the proof of these facts is somewhat more complicated than usual, and requires an ad hoc analysis. The zero-level set of the momentum map is proved to be partitioned into presymplectic manifolds which are labelled by conjugacy classes of compact subgroups of the gauge group. The reduced phase space is constructed, and is proved to be a union of symplectic manifolds. These manifolds are again labelled by conjugacy classes of compact subgroups \(H\) of the gauge group; as a consequence to each of these manifolds there corresponds a reduction of the structure group to the centralizer of \(H\) in \(G\). This gives rise to a symmetry breaking mechanism which does not require the introduction of a Higgs field.