Curvature function and coarse graining

DOI10.1063/1.3521553MaRDI QIDQ5255482zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Homero G. Díaz-Marín, José A. Zapata

Publication date 15 June 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3818

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Classification of fiber spaces or bundles in algebraic topology (55R15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Equivariant fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R91) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

Abstract: A classic theorem in the theory of connections on principal fiber bundles states that the evaluation of all holonomy functions gives enough information to characterize the bundle structure (among those sharing the same structure group and base manifold) and the connection up to a bundle equivalence map. This result and other important properties of holonomy functions has encouraged their use as the primary ingredient for the construction of families of quantum gauge theories. However, in these applications often the set of holonomy functions used is a discrete proper subset of the set of holonomy functions needed for the characterization theorem to hold. We show that the evaluation of a discrete set of holonomy functions does not characterize the bundle and does not constrain the connection modulo gauge appropriately. We exhibit a discrete set of functions of the connection and prove that in the abelian case their evaluation characterizes the bundle structure (up to equivalence), and constrains the connection modulo gauge up to "local details" ignored when working at a given scale. The main ingredient is the Lie algebra valued curvature function $F_S(A)$ defined below. It covers the holonomy function in the sense that $exp{F}_S(A)=mHol(l=partialS,A)$.

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