Abelian gauge theories on compact manifolds and the Gribov ambiguity

DOI10.1063/1.2909197zbMATH Open1152.81507arXiv0707.1186OpenAlexW3106027243MaRDI QIDQ5504902FDOQ5504902

Authors: Gerald Kelnhofer 

Publication date: 23 January 2009

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

Abstract: We study the quantization of abelian gauge theories of principal torus bundles over compact manifolds with and without boundary. It is shown that these gauge theories suffer from a Gribov ambiguity originating in the non-triviality of the bundle of connections whose geometrical structure will be analyzed in detail. Motivated by the stochastic quantization approach we propose a modified functional integral measure on the space of connections that takes the Gribov problem into account. This functional integral measure is used to calculate the partition function, the Greens functions and the field strength correlating functions in any dimension using the fact that the space of inequivalent connections itself admits the structure of a bundle over a finite dimensional torus. The Greens functions are shown to be affected by the non-trivial topology, giving rise to non-vanishing vacuum expectation values for the gauge fields.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1186

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Spaces and manifolds of mappings (including nonlinear versions of 46Exx) (58D99)

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