The Atiyah - Singer index theorem and the gauge field copy problem

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/30/15/032MaRDI QIDQ4248345zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adonai S. Sant'Anna, Francisco Antonio Doria, N. C. A. da Costa

Publication date 7 February 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9905022

zbMATH Keywords

\(K\)-theoryAtiyah-Singer index theoremgauge field copy problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Abstract: K-theory allows us to define an analytical condition for the existence of `false' gauge field copies through the use of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. After establishing that result we discuss a possible extension of the same result without the help of the index theorem and suggest possible related lines of work.

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