The Riemannian geometry of the configuration space of gauge theories

DOI10.1007/BF01208272zbMath0495.58003OpenAlexW1976926545WikidataQ115393907 ScholiaQ115393907MaRDI QIDQ1169730

O. Babelon, Claude 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

geodesicsnormal coordinatesfocal pointsgauge fixingGribov 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

Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) 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)

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