Eliminativism and the QCD _YM-term: what gauge transformations cannot do

DOI10.1007/s10701-024-00759-5MaRDI QIDQ6570235zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Henrique Gomes, Aldo Riello

Publication date 10 July 2024

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-024-00759-5

zbMATH Keywords

bundle topologyfiber bundlefull gauge-invariancegauge degree of freedomsecond Chern numberYang-Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Review text

The nature of the \((F\wedge F)\) term in the Yang-Mills models is investigated. It is argued that while this term (its trace) is fully gauge-invariant (whether the gauge transformation is small or large), and is a total derivative (hence not affecting the equation of motion), its integral is a topological quantity, and hence is physical (observable).

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