Gauge fixing, families index theory, and topological features of the space of lattice gauge fields

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00567-9zbMATH Open0997.81059arXivhep-lat/0203014OpenAlexW2084578193MaRDI QIDQ696098FDOQ696098

Authors: David H. Adams 

Publication date: 10 September 2002

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The families index theory for the overlap lattice Dirac operator is applied to derive topological features of the space of SU(N) lattice gauge fields on the 4-torus: The topological sectors, specified by the fermionic topological charge, are shown to contain noncontractible even-dimensional spheres when $Nge3$, and noncontractible circles in the N=2 case. We describe how certain obstructions to the existence of gauge fixings without the Gribov problem in the continuum setting correspond on the lattice to obstructions to the contractibility of these spheres and circles. We also point out a canonical connection on the space of lattice gauge fields with monopole-like singularities associated with the spheres.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0203014

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zbMATH Keywords

contractibilitycanonical connectionoverlap Dirac operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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