The geometry of gauge field copies

DOI10.1007/BF01208502MaRDI QIDQ1167463zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Francisco Antonio Doria

Publication date 1981

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01208502

zbMATH Keywords

2-form over spacetimeambiguous potentialsgauge groupgauge-equivalenceholonomy groupnon degenerate fieldpotential ambiguity for nonabelian gauge fieldspotential of a gauge field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08)

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• Necessary and sufficient analytical conditions for the existence of false gauge field copies
• Counterexamples to some results on the existence of field copies

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