Transiting topological sectors with the overlap

DOI10.1016/S0920-5632(03)80476-0MaRDI QIDQ1409949zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael Creutz

Publication date 13 October 2003

Published in Nuclear Physics. B. Proceedings Supplements (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0208026

zbMATH Keywords

lattice-gauge-field-configuration winding numbersimply-connected gauge-field spacetruncated-overlap-operator eigenvalues

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

Abstract: The overlap operator provides an elegant definition for the winding number of lattice gauge field configurations. Only for a set of configurations of measure zero is this procedure undefined. Without restrictions on the lattice fields, however, the space of gauge fields is simply connected. I present a simple low dimensional illustration of how the eigenvalues of a truncated overlap operator flow as one travels between different topological sectors.

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