Global aspects of fixing the gauge in the Polyakov string and Einstein gravity

DOI10.1007/BF01212451MaRDI QIDQ1063922zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Timothy Killingback

Publication date 1985

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01212451

zbMATH Keywords

4-dimensional Einstein gravityGauge fixingglobal analysisPolyakov string theoryYang-Mills theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08)

Review text

In 1978 \textit{I. M. Singer} [ibid. 60, 7-12 (1978; Zbl 0379.53009)] showed that an obstruction to fixing the gauge in Yang-Mills theories existed on topological grounds. In the present paper the author shows that analogous obstructions exist in fixing a continuous global gauge in the Polyakov string theory and also in 4-dimensional Einstein gravity.

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