Abelianization of Wilson loop of non-abelian gauge theory on complex manifold and Polyakov's conjecture.

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(02)80045-3MaRDI QIDQ1809930zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 30 March 2004

Published in Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0034-4877(02)80045-3

zbMATH Keywords

abelianization of a gauge theorygauge fieldsPolyakov's conjectureYang-Mills fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Equivariant fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R91) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Review text

The authors consider the gauge theory with the group GL\((2,\mathbb C)\) on a complex 2-dimensional manifold \(M\) which is a compactification of the Euclidean 4-space, associated with a rank two Hermitian holomorphic vector bundle \(\pi : E \rightarrow M\). Using the monoidal transform of \(E\) along the zero section, they construct a complex manifold \(\widetilde M\) which is a \(\mathbb C P^1\)-bundle over \(M\) together with a line bundle \(\widetilde{\pi} : \widetilde E \rightarrow \widetilde M\) such that \(\pi\) and \(\widetilde{\pi}\) have isomorphic spaces of sections. The Abelian gauge theory with the structure group \(\mathbb C^*\) of the bundle \(\widetilde{ \pi}\) is related with the non-Abelian gauge theory of the bundle \(\pi\) and it is called the abelianization. This construction is considered as a realization of the idea of abelianization, proposed by 't Hooft, who used it to explain the confinement in the quantum chromodynamics. The authors calculate the Wilson loop of abelianized gauge theory, starting from the Wilson loop of GL\((2,\mathbb{C})\) gauge theory. They show that their theory in the case of holomorphic gauge theory gives a verification of the Polyakov's conjecture that all gauge theories are equivalent to a certain nonstandard string theory.

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