The Chern character of certain infinite rank bundles arising in gauge theory

DOI10.1090/CONM/584/11602zbMATH Open1317.58023arXiv1203.0245OpenAlexW2963657567MaRDI QIDQ5265423FDOQ5265423

Authors: Jouko Mickelsson 

Publication date: 28 July 2015

Published in: Analysis, Geometry and Quantum Field Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A cocycle $Omega:PimesGoH$ taking values in a Lie group $H$ for a free right action of $G$ on $P$ defines a principal bundle $Q$ with the structure group $H$ over $P/G.$ The Chern character of a vector bundle associated to $Q$ defines then characteristic classes on $X.$ This observation becomes useful in the case of infinite dimensional groups. It typically happens that a representation of $G$ is not given by linear operators which differ from the indentity by a trace-class operator. For this reason the Chern character of a vector bundle associated to the principal fibration $PoP/G$ is ill-defined. But it may happen that the Lie algebra representations of the group $H$ are given in terms of trace-class operators and therefore the Chern character is well-defined; this observation is useful especially if the map $gmapstoOmega(p;g)$ is a homotopy equivalence on the image for any $pinP.$ We apply this method to the case $P=CalA,$ the space of gauge connections in a finite-dimensional vector bundle, and $G=CalG$ is the group of (based) gauge transformations. The method for constructing the appropriate cocycle $Omega$ comes from ideas in quantum field theory, used to define the renormalized gauge currents in a Fock space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0245

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zbMATH Keywords

Chern charactergauge theoryinfinite rank bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25) Differential complexes (58J10)

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