Homotopy and duality in non-Abelian lattice gauge theory

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2004.01.025zbMATH Open1107.81317arXivhep-th/0308100OpenAlexW2015450957MaRDI QIDQ874039FDOQ874039

Romain Attal

Publication date: 4 April 2007

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

Abstract: We propose an approach of lattice gauge theory based on a homotopic interpretation of its degrees of freedom. The basic idea is to dress the plaquettes of the lattice to view them as elementary homotopies between nearby paths. Instead of using a unique $G$-valued field to discretize the connection 1-form, $A$, we use an $AG$-valued field $U$ on the edges, which plays the role of the 1-form $a{d}_A$, and a $G$-valued field $V$ on the plaquettes, which corresponds to the Faraday tensor, $F$. The 1-connection, $U$, and the 2-connection, $V$, are then supposed to have a 2-curvature which vanishes. This constraint determines $V$ as a function of $U$ up to a phase in $Z(G)$, the center of $G$. The 3-curvature around a cube is then Abelian and is interpreted as the magnetic charge contained inside this cube. Promoting the plaquettes to elementary homotopies induces a chiral splitting of their usual Boltzmann weight, $$, defined with the Wilson action. We compute the Fourier transform, $hatv$, of this chiral Boltzmann weight on $G=S{U}_3$ and we obtain a finite sum of generalized hypergeometric functions. The dual model describes the dynamics of three spin fields : $lambd{a}_{P}inhatG$ and $$, on each oriented plaquette $P$, and $$, on each oriented edge $(ab)$. Finally, we sketch a geometric interpretation of this spin system in a fibered category modeled on the category of representations of $G$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0308100

zbMATH Keywords

homotopylattice gauge theoryfibered categoriesKramers--Wannier duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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