The Riemannian geometry of the configuration space of gauge theories

DOI10.1007/BF01208272zbMATH Open0495.58003OpenAlexW1976926545WikidataQ115393907 ScholiaQ115393907MaRDI QIDQ1169730FDOQ1169730

Authors: O. Babelon, C-M Viallet 

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01208272

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsgauge fixingfocal pointsnormal coordinatesGribov horizondynamical systems with constraintpath integral approach to quantizationRiemannian geometry of the configuration space of gauge theoriesspace of all gauge non-equivalent potentials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08)

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