Gauge forms on SU(2)-bundles

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(98)00065-5MaRDI QIDQ1301346zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marco Castrillón López, Jaime Muñoz Masqué

Publication date 22 January 2001

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0393-0440(98)00065-5

zbMATH Keywords

\(SU(2)\)-bundlebundle of connectionsgauge automorphismgauge invariant differential forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lie algebras of vector fields and related (super) algebras (17B66) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10)

Review text

A gauge transformation (g.t.) of a principal \(G\)-bundle \(P\) is a fibre preserving automorphism of it. Every g.t. of \(P\) induces an automorphism, called also a g.t., on the bundle of connections \(\mathcal{C} (P)\). The authors consider \(G=\text{SU}(2)\) as a 3-sphere \(S^3\) and introduce the coordinates on \(\mathcal{C}(P)\) which are used for investigating the algebra of gauge invariant differential forms on \(\mathcal{C}(P)\). They prove that this algebra is generated over the algebra of differential forms on the base manifold \(M\) by a 4-form \(\eta _4\), constructed in an explicit manner using the local expression of a connection. As \(p: \mathcal{C} (P)\longmapsto M\) is an affine bundle, \(p\) induces an isomorphism in the cohomology algebra. The authors prove that the cohomology class of \({\eta _4}\) concides with \( - 4 \pi ^2\) times \(p^*(c_2(P))\), where \(c_2(P)\) denotes the second Chern class of \(P\). However, as they argue, the form \(\eta_4\) provides more information then the Chern class. The proofs are elaborate and well conducted.

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