Strong connections on quantum principal bundles

DOI10.1007/BF02506418MaRDI QIDQ2364987zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 2 November 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9406129

connections of quantum principal bundles gauge transformations noncommutative differential geometry projective modules strong connections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative topology (46L85) Noncommutative differential geometry (46L87) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: A gauge invariant notion of a strong connection is presented and characterized. It is then used to justify the way in which a global curvature form is defined. Strong connections are interpreted as those that are induced from the base space of a quantum bundle. Examples of both strong and non-strong connections are provided. In particular, such connections are constructed on a quantum deformation of the fibration

S^{2} - > R P^{2}

. A certain class of strong

U_{q} (2)

-connections on a trivial quantum principal bundle is shown to be equivalent to the class of connections on a free module that are compatible with the q-dependent hermitian metric. A particular form of the Yang-Mills action on a trivial

U s b q (2)

-bundle is investigated. It is proved to coincide with the Yang-Mills action constructed by A.Connes and M.Rieffel. Furthermore, it is shown that the moduli space of critical points of this action functional is independent of q.

Review text

A class of connections of quantum principal bundles, called strong connections, is specified and the link between the two approaches to noncommutative differential geometry based on quantum principal bundles and projective modules is discussed. The definition of a quantum principal bundle is given by using the Snake diagrams. Strong connections are interpreted as those that are induced from the base space of a quantum bundle. Both strong and nonstrong connections are constructed on the quantum deformation of the two-sphere fibration \(S^2\to \mathbb{R} P^2\). The action of (global) gauge transformations on the space of connections is defined and it is shown that this action preserves the strongness of a connection. The global curvature form on a quantum principal bundle is introduced starting from the properties of the exterior covariant derivative associated with a strong connection. Finally, a particular form of the Yang-Mills action on a trivial \(U_q(2)\)-bundle is investigated in detail.

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