On diagonalization in map(M,G)

DOI10.1007/BF02104681zbMATH Open0838.58004arXivhep-th/9402097MaRDI QIDQ1907977FDOQ1907977

Authors: Matthias Blau, George Thompson 

Publication date: 15 February 1996

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by some questions in the path integral approach to (topological) gauge theories, we are led to address the following question: given a smooth map from a manifold $M$ to a compact group $G$, is it possible to smoothly `diagonalize' it, i.e.~conjugate it into a map to a maximal torus $T$ of $G$? We analyze the local and global obstructions and give a complete solution to the problem for regular maps. We establish that these can always be smoothly diagonalized locally and that the obstructions to doing this globally are non-trivial Weyl group and torus bundles on $M$. We show how the patching of local diagonalizing maps gives rise to non-trivial $T$-bundles, explain the relation to winding numbers of maps into $G/T$ and restrictions of the structure group and examine the behaviour of gauge fields under this diagonalization. We also discuss the complications that arise for non-regular maps and in the presence of non-trivial $G$-bundles. In particular, we establish a relation between the existence of regular sections of a non-trivial adjoint bundle and restrictions of the structure group of a principal $G$-bundle to $T$. We use these results to justify a Weyl integral formula for functional integrals which, as a novel feature not seen in the finite-dimensional case, contains a summation over all those topological $T$-sectors which arise as restrictions of a trivial principal $G$ bundle and which was used previously to solve completely Yang-Mills theory and the $G/G$ model in two dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9402097

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zbMATH Keywords

manifoldcompact Lie groupdiagonalizationWeyl groupsmooth mapgauge fieldstorus bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Manifolds of mappings (58D15)

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