Spatial geometry of the electric field representation of non-abelian gauge theories.

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90196-1zbMATH Open1049.81551arXivhep-th/9405028OpenAlexW3105144614MaRDI QIDQ1967544FDOQ1967544

Authors: Daniel Z. Freedman, Peter E. Haagensen, Michel Bauer 

Publication date: 6 March 2000

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

Abstract: A unitary transformation $Ps[E]=exp(iO[E]/g)F[E]$ is used to simplify the Gauss law constraint of non-abelian gauge theories in the electric field representation. This leads to an unexpected geometrization because $o_i^{a}equiv-dO[E]/d{E}^{ai}$ transforms as a (composite) connection. The geometric information in $o_i^a$ is transferred to a gauge invariant spatial connection $G_{jk}^i$ and torsion by a suitable choice of basis vectors for the adjoint representation which are constructed from the electric field $E^{ai}$. A metric is also constructed from $E^{ai}$. For gauge group $SU(2)$, the spatial geometry is the standard Riemannian geometry of a 3-manifold, and for $SU(3)$ it is a metric preserving geometry with both conventional and unconventional torsion. The transformed Hamiltonian is local. For a broad class of physical states, it can be expressed entirely in terms of spatial geometric, gauge invariant variables.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9405028

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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