Resolution of Gauss' law in Yang-Mills theory by gauge-invariant projection: Topology and magnetic monopoles

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00489-6MaRDI QIDQ1367555zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bernhard Rupp

Publication date 24 September 1997

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702049

zbMATH Keywords

topologystringsgauge transformationCartan decompositiongauge invariant partition functionPontryagin gauge field indexspatial field variablet-Hooft Abelian gauges

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: An efficient way of resolving Gauss' law in Yang-Mills theory is presented by starting from the projected gauge invariant partition function and integrating out one spatial field variable. In this way one obtains immediately the description in terms of unconstrained gauge invariant variables which was previously obtained by explicitly resolving Gauss' law in a modified axial gauge. In this gauge, which is a variant of 't Hooft's Abelian gauges, magnetic monopoles occur. It is shown how the Pontryagin index of the gauge field is related to the magnetic charges. It turns out that the magnetic monopoles are sufficient to account for the non-trivial topological structure of the theory.

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