Equivariant symplectic geometry of gauge fixing in Yang–Mills theory

DOI10.1063/1.2897049zbMATH Open1153.81305arXivhep-th/0703119OpenAlexW3104903395MaRDI QIDQ3544683FDOQ3544683

Authors: Levent Akant 

Publication date: 8 December 2008

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

Abstract: The Faddeev-Popov gauge fixing in Yang-Mills theory is interpreted as equivariant localization. It is shown that the Faddeev-Popov procedure amounts to a construction of a symplectic manifold with a Hamiltonian group action. The BRST cohomology is shown to be equivalent to the equivariant cohomology based on this symplectic manifold with Hamiltonian group action. The ghost operator is interpreted as a (pre)symplectic form and the gauge condition as the moment map corresponding to the Hamiltonian group action. This results in the identification of the gauge fixing action as a closed equivariant form, the sum of an equivariant symplectic form and a certain closed equivariant 4-form which ensures convergence. An almost complex structure compatible with the symplectic form is constructed. The equivariant localization principle is used to localize the path integrals onto the gauge slice. The Gribov problem is also discussed in the context of equivariant localization principle. As a simple illustration of the methods developed in the paper, the partition function of N=2 supersymmetric quantum mechanics is calculated by equivariant localization

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0703119

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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