Photon inner product and the Gauss-linking number

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/1A/005MaRDI QIDQ4332335zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Abhay Ashtekar, Alejandro Corichi

Publication date 13 February 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9608017

zbMATH Keywords

knot invariantsquantum theoryself-dualityloop representationGauss-linking number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: It is shown that there is an interesting interplay between self-duality, loop representation and knots invariants in the quantum theory of Maxwell fields in Minkowski space-time. Specifically, in the loop representation based on self-dual connections, the measure that dictates the inner product can be expressed as the Gauss linking number of thickened loops.

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