Canonical gauges in higher gauge theory

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03530-4MaRDI QIDQ2184739zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andreas Gastel

Publication date 29 May 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06278

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Derived categories of sheaves, dg categories, and related constructions in algebraic geometry (14F08) 2-categories, bicategories, double categories (18N10) Sobolev (and similar kinds of) spaces of functions on metric spaces; analysis on metric spaces (46E36) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Geometric quantization (53D50) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65) Hodge theory in global analysis (58A14) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We study the problem of finding good gauges for connections in higher gauge theories. We find that, for $2$-connections in strict $2$-gauge theory and $3$-connections in $3$-gauge theory, there are local "Coulomb gauges" that are more canonical than in classical gauge theory. In particular, they are essentially unique, and no smallness of curvature is needed in the critical dimensions. We give natural definitions of $2$-Yang-Mills and $3$-Yang-Mills theory and find that the choice of good gauges makes them essentially linear. As an application, (anti-)selfdual $2$-connections over $B^6$ are always $2$-Yang-Mills, and (anti-)selfdual $3$-connections over $B^8$ are always $3$-Yang-Mills.

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