Orbifolds as configuration spaces of systems with gauge symmetries

DOI10.1007/BF02096779zbMath0705.58020MaRDI QIDQ917998

C. Emmrich, Hartmann Römer

Publication date: 1990

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

zbMATH Keywords

configuration spaceorbifoldgauge symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10)

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