Questions tagged [gauge-theory]
Gauge theory in physics and mathematics refers to a field theory whose fields include principal bundles with connection.
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Exact forms, gauge transformations, and the Hodge decomposition in non-abelian Gauge theory
I am trying to understand how the Hodge decomposition is affected by gauge transformations in non-abelian in gauge theory (eg $\mathrm{SU}(N)$). In particular, I am searching for a way to generalise ...
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Nullity of a self-dual connection
I consider Yang-Mills theory in the critical dimension $4$ on a $SU(2)$-bundle with positive Chern-Class. It is well known that self-dual connections ($*F=F$) are minimizers of the Yang-Mills ...
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"More stable" definitions of principal $G$-bundle
Let $G$ be a topological group. For any pointed topological space $X$, define $[X,G]$ to be the group whose underlying topological space is the space of pointed continuous maps from $X$ to $G$, with ...
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Riemann surface invariants from vortex equation
The vortex equations are often pitched as a toy model of the Seiberg-Witten equations. While the SW equations are frequently referenced in the context of providing geometric invariants on the base ...
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Higher-dimensional analogue of the relation between stable Higgs bundles and constant curvature metrics
In Hitchin's famous paper[1] on the self-dual Yang-Mills equations, he discussed the relation between the stable Higgs bundles and the Teichmüller space for a compact Riemann surface. Namely, through ...
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The smoothness of solutions to the Hitchin self-dual equations within a stable orbit after Sobolev completion
First, let me introduce the background of the problem: While studying chapter 4 of the Hitchin's paper "THE SELF-DUALITY EQUATIONS ON A RIEMANN SURFACE", I encountered an issue. Hitchin ...
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Is it likely that gradient flow trajectories of a $G$-invariant function pass through degenerate points?
This question may be posed somewhat vaguely, but I'm interested to actually get an idea of what to expect, so I try to not target it at a specific result.
Assume that $G$ is a compact Lie group, ...
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Gauge invariance issues of YM theories in 2D Euclidean space
In order to be clear, I will write down every component explicitly. Also, I assume Euclidean metric in this post, so that spacetime indices are written as $i,j$ rather than $\mu, \nu$.
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Question about the index of two elliptic operators over a 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold
I've already asked this question in: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4899825/question-about-the-index-of-two-elliptic-operators-over-a-4-dimensional-riemanni, and I've been suggested to ask ...
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Generalizing the Narasimhan–Seshadri theorem
There is a theorem that (stable, topologically trivial) holomorphic $G$-bundles are in one-to-one correspondence to flat $K$-bundles (with the appropriate corresponding condition), where $K$ is the ...
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An interesting identity involving skew-Schur functions
Denote $\rho=(-\frac12,-\frac32,-\frac52,\dots)$. I was reading this interesting paper, where in particular, the authors claim that one can get the expression in (2.9)
\begin{align*}
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Question from Taubes' SW$\Rightarrow$ Gr
I am trying to understand Taubes' paper on SW$\Rightarrow$ Gr. I don't understand how either of the equations 2.16 or 2.17 appears, I would be happy to understand how the curvature term $F_a$ appears ...
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Taubes' SW$\Rightarrow$ Gr
I am reading Taubes' paper on SW$\Rightarrow$ Gr and lost in some analysis, can anyone help me to see how to get equation 2.19 from equation 2.18? Is this some version of Kato for the Laplacian?
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Spin(7)-instanton
Let $M$ be a Spin$(7)$-manifold with a spin-bundle $S=S_+\oplus S_-$. There's an obvious connection on $S$ which comes from lifting the Levi-Civita connection. And it induces a connection on the ...
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Changing the sign of the moment map in the Seiberg Witten equations
The Seiberg-Witten equations on a closed four manifold
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D_A \varphi = 0, F_A^+ = \mu(\varphi)
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are elliptic (up to gauge transformations), and so the equations
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D_A \varphi = 0, F_A^+ = -\mu(\...
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Does a gauge-invariant Caccioppoli inequality hold?
(I previously asked this question on Math.SE but got no responses after two weeks.)
Let $V \Subset U$ be domains in a Riemannian manifold $M$, and $W := U \setminus \overline V$. If $u: U \to \mathbb ...
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Understanding the Seiberg-Witten equations in dimension $3$
I am trying to understand the dimensional reduction of Seiberg-Witten equations from dimension $4$ to $3$, more specifically my concern is about ellipticity of the new equations in dimension $3$ under ...
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Is this a correct description of the BPS monopole of charge $1$?
I am reading the book "The Geometry and Dynamics of Magnetic Monopoles", by M.F. Atiyah and N.J. Hitchin, and I got to this part:
"... let $H$ be the Hopf line bundle over $S^2$ and ...
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A question about the book "the geometry and dynamics of magnetic monopoles"
In chapter 2 of the book "The geometry and dynamics of magnetic monopoles", by M.F. Atiyah and N.J. Hitchin (the chapter is called "Geometry of the monopole spaces"), it is written:...
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Spin connection vs. Cartan connection
I am studying the tetradic Palatini formalism of general relativity. In this formalism, one usually considers a manifold $M$, which is either non-compact or compact with Euler-characteristic $\chi(M)=...
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Do we have $d(P_{+}(\omega\wedge \theta))=d_{+}\omega\wedge \theta-\omega\wedge d_{+}\theta$ on a self-dual manifold?
Let $(X, g)$ be a smooth, oriented, Riemannian 4-diemnsional manifold. Let $\Lambda^2$ denote the bundle of 2-forms on $X$. Then the Hodge-star operator decomposes $\Lambda^2$ into the space of self-...
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Hyperkähler structure of framed instantons over $\smash{\overline{\mathbb{C}P}}^2$
When underlying $4$ manifold is compact and hyperkähler, the philosophy of infinite dimensional moment map tells us that its instantons moduli space is also hyperkähler. I'm curious about the ...
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Heat kernel coefficients for Laplacian in instanton background
The heat kernel coefficients $b_{2k}(x,y)$ of the covariant Laplacian in an $SU(2)$ instanton background (for simplicity let's say $q=1$ topological charge, so the 't Hooft solution) on $R^4$ is ...
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Existence of Yang-Mills connection
My question is about what we know, in dimension $4$, about the loss of compactness of Yang–Mills connections with $L^2$-bounded curvature. My background is more analytical than geometrical and it is ...
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"Neck cutting" and why gauge theory doesn't work on homotopy 4-spheres
I attended a talk recently and the speaker said, essentially, that gauge theory invariants are expected to never be able to detect exotic 4-spheres because they always vanish, for a reason related to ...
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Instantons on the 4-sphere with respect to other Riemannian metrics
It is known that the moduli space of $\text{SU}(2)$ instantons of charge $1$ on $S^4$ is diffeomorphic to the five-ball $B^5$ if $S^4$ is endowed with the round metric.
Question: what does the moduli ...
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Sufficient condition for moduli space of slope-stable bundles to be non-empty
I'm trying to find to a statement concerning the non-emptiness of the moduli space of slope stable vector bundles over a Kähler surface in the literature.
Let $X$ be a Kähler surface. Let $\mathscr{M}(...
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Weitzenbock- Anti-selfdual
In "The Theory of Gauge Fields in Four Manifolds", B.Lawson proves the Bochner-Weitzenbock, for an anti-self-dual field $\Psi \in \Omega^2_-(\mathfrak{G}_E)$,where $\mathfrak{G}_E$ is the ...
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Finding a unitary operator on L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{2},dxdy)
I have a one parameter (r) family of self-adjoint representations of the universal enveloping algebra of some nilpotent Lie group on $L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{2},dxdy)$ as follows:
$$\hat{X}^{r}=\hat{x}-i(r-...
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Uhlenbeck's compactness for abelian gauge
I am looking for a simpler proof (if possible) for the Uhlenbeck's compactness result (bound on connection up-to gauge from bound on curvature) on an open ball. I know that a proof exists using Hodge-...
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Is there a program to solve The Yang–Mills Existence and Mass Gap problem similar to the Hamilton's program to solve Poincaré Conjecture?
According to Wikipedia:
"Hamilton's program was started in his 1982 paper in which he introduced the Ricci flow on a manifold and showed how to use it to prove some special cases of the Poincaré ...
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Gauge invariance of a QFT path integral
If we consider the usual formal construction of a path integral over fields with gauge symmetries e.g as in Weinbergs "The Quantum Theory of Fields - Volume 2" the notion of gauge invariance ...
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Moduli space of flat connection over homology 3-sphere
I'm trying to understand the space of flat connections of the trivial $\mathrm{SU}(2)$-bundle over a closed, oriented homology three-sphere (for the purpose of understanding the instanton Floer ...
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Does $(S^1\times S^3)\#(S^1\times S^3)\#(S^2\times S^2)$ admit a symplectic form?
This is a crosspost from this MSE question from a year ago.
Consider the smooth four-manifold $M = (S^1\times S^3)\#(S^1\times S^3)\#(S^2\times S^2)$. Does $M$ admit a symplectic form?
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In search of a combinatorial proof on particular set of partitions
Given a partition $\lambda=(\lambda_1\geq\lambda_2\geq\dots)$, denote the conjugate partition by $\lambda'=(\lambda_1'\geq\lambda_2'\geq\dots)$. For example, if $\lambda=(4,2,2)$ then $\lambda'=(3,3,1,...
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Different definitions of "charged spinors": "bundle splicing" vs. "twisted spinor bundles"
Currently I study the mathematical formulation of the (classical) standard model of particle physics using the language of gauge theory and spin geometry. One of the central objects in the standard ...
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Non existence of preferred Horizontal subspace on a bundle [closed]
If I choose a principal bundle, let us say $G\rightarrow P \rightarrow B$, with $G=U(1)$, $P=S^1 \times S^1$ and $B=S^1$. Can I follow the identity element of the group over a curve at the base. How ...
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Vortex equation on Riemann surface and a similar equation
Let's take a Riemann surface $(X,\omega)$ and a holomorphic line bundle $L$ on it with a hermitian metric $h$ on $L$. $g$ be a real valued smooth function on $X$ and we consider the following two sets ...
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Understanding the slice theorem
I was reading Morgan's book: "The Seiberg-Witten equations and applications to the topology of smooth four-manifolds" and find it hard to understand the slice theorem (page 62-64).
Here are ...
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Curvature of the line bundle $\mathcal{O}(2)$ on the twistor space
Let $M^4$ be a closed Riemannian manifold and $Z:=S\big(\Lambda^2_+(M)\big)$ denote the twistor space of $M,$ i.e., the sphere bundle of the self-dual 2-forms on $M$. Now at a point $(m,J)\in Z$ the ...
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How much do characteristic classes fail to characterize bundles?
Given a group $G$, let $E \to B$ be a principal $G$-bundle. It is
well-known that when $B$ is a nice enough topological space (e.g.
CW-complex), such a thing corresponds to a connected component of
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Yang–Mills existence and mass gap official statement on Euclidean $\mathbb{R}^4$, why not Minkowski $ \mathbb{R}^{3,1}$?
Yang–Mills existence and mass gap problem is officially stated by Clay Mathematics Institute:
Yang–Mills Existence and Mass Gap.'' Prove that for any compact simple gauge group G, a non-trivial ...
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Chern-Simons Functional for $S^1$-bundles over Riemann Surfaces
If $M$ is a closed, orientable 3-manifold $M$ and also happens to be an $S^1$ bundle over some Riemann surface $\Sigma$, then it seems like a natural Heegaard splitting of $M$ could come from ...
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Moduli spaces of rank 2 stable bundles over curves as projective varieties
Let $\Sigma$ be a Riemann surface of genus $g$. Let's consider the moduli space of rank $2$ stable vector bundles with determinant $L$ such that $\deg(L)$ is odd. Denote this space by $\mathcal{M}_{\...
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Donaldson invariants for piecewise-linear $4$-manifolds
It is well known that in dimension $4$, the notion of piecewise linear manifolds and the notion of smooth manifolds are the same [1][2]. On the other hand, the computations of Donaldson invariants ...
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Infinitely many nonempty Seiberg-Witten moduli spaces
The classic "finiteness" statement in Seiberg-Witten (SW) theory is that, for any smooth closed connected 4-manifold, there are only finitely many spin-c structures with nontrivial SW ...
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The Yang-Mills Higgs Lagrangian
Let's say we have a principal bundle $(P,B,\pi;G)$ and associated bundle $E=P \times_{(G,\rho)}V$and $Ad(P)=P\times_{(G,Ad)} \mathfrak{g}$ the adjoint bundle. The Yang-Mills-Higgs action (without ...
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Spin connection in the tetradic Palatini-formalism of general relativity
$\DeclareMathOperator\SO{SO}$I am trying to understand the tetradic Palatini-formalism of general relativity from a mathematical point of view. I am graduate student and quite new to mathematical ...
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Tensor product of associated vector bundles
Let $(P, X, \pi, G)$ and $(P', X, \pi', G')$ be two principal bundles (with Lie groups $G$, $G'$ respectively). Given a vector space $V$ and representations $\rho, \rho'$ of the Lie groups in this ...
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Compactly supported geometric representatives for Seiberg-Witten invariant
The question is introduced at the end of the second paragraph.
Readers familiar with Seiberg-Witten theory may well skip the first paragraph.
The first paragraph is meant to set up some notation which ...
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