Functional integration on spaces of connections

DOI10.1006/JFAN.1997.3108zbMATH Open0891.46040arXivq-alg/9507023OpenAlexW2011895889WikidataQ62443606 ScholiaQ62443606MaRDI QIDQ1371022FDOQ1371022

Authors: John Baez, Stephen Sawin 

Publication date: 20 July 1998

Published in: Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a compact connected Lie group and $PoM$ a smooth principal $G$-bundle. Let a `cylinder function' on the space $A$ of smooth connections on $P$ be a continuous function of the holonomies of $A$ along finitely many piecewise smoothly immersed curves in $M$, and let a generalized measure on $A$ be a bounded linear functional on cylinder functions. We construct a generalized measure on the space of connections that extends the uniform measure of Ashtekar, Lewandowski and Baez to the smooth case, and prove it is invariant under all automorphisms of $P$, not necessarily the identity on the base space $M$. Using `spin networks' we construct explicit functions spanning the corresponding Hilbert space $L^2(A/G)$, where $G$ is the group of gauge transformations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/q-alg/9507023

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zbMATH Keywords

functional integrationgauge transformationsspaces of connectionssmooth principal \(G\)-bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures and integration on abstract linear spaces (46G12) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60) Measures (Gaussian, cylindrical, etc.) on manifolds of maps (58D20)

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