Topological field theory and physics

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/1/005zbMATH Open0868.57025arXivhep-th/9504049OpenAlexW2074724432MaRDI QIDQ4332165FDOQ4332165

Authors: Damiano Anselmi 

Publication date: 13 February 1997

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Topological Yang-Mills theory with the Belavin-Polyakov-Schwarz-Tyupkin $SU(2)$ instanton is solved completely, revealing an underlying multi-link intersection theory. Link invariants are also shown to survive the coupling to a certain kind of matter (hyperinstantons). The physical relevance of topological field theory and its invariants is discovered. By embedding topological Yang-Mills theory into pure Yang-Mills theory, it is shown that the topological version TQFT of a quantum field theory QFT allows us to formulate consistently the perturbative expansion of QFT in the topologically nontrivial sectors. In particular, TQFT classifies the set of good measures over the instanton moduli space and solves the inconsistency problems of the previous approaches. The qualitatively new physical implications are pointed out. Link numbers in QCD are related to a non abelian analogoue of the Aharonov-Bohm effect.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9504049

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theoryYang-Mills theorytopological field theorylink invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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