On the problem of the amenability of the gauge group

DOI10.1023/B:MATH.0000043318.42556.03MaRDI QIDQ2575237zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. L. Carey, H. Grundling

Publication date 8 December 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0401031

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) States of selfadjoint operator algebras (46L30) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15)

Abstract: Let G be one of the local gauge groups C(X,U(n)), C^infty(X,U(n)), C(X,SU(n)) or C^infty(X,SU(n)) where X is a compact Riemannian manifold. We observe that G has a nontrivial group topology, coarser than its natural topology, w.r.t. which it is amenable, viz the relative weak topology of C(X,M(n)). This topology seems more useful than other known amenable topologies for G. We construct a simple fermionic model containing an action of G, continuous w.r.t. this amenable topology.

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