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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What is the precise statement of the correspondence between stable Higgs bundles on a Riemann surface, solutions to Hitchin's self-duality equations on the Riemann surface, and representations of the fundamental group of the Riemann surface?
I am trying to find the precise statement of the correspondence between stable Higgs bundles on a Riemann surface $\Sigma$, (irreducible) solutions to Hitchin's self-duality equations on $\Sigma$, and ...
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Is symplectic reduction interesting from a physical point of view?
Do you think that symplectic reduction (Marsden Weinstein reduction) is interesting from a physical point of view? If so, why? Does it give you some new physical insights?
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module of sections of the horizontal bundle
Some times ago I posted this question here. There I carelessly assumed that if you have a set of sections of a vector bundle which span every fiber pointwise, they also generate the module of smooth ...
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How do you exponentiate a section of the adjoint bundle to get a gauge transformation?
Suppose $E$ is a vector bundle with structure group $G$ and let $P = F(E)$ be the frame bundle. Let $\mathfrak{g}_P$ denote the associated bundle to the adjoint representation of $G$ on its Lie ...
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Literature for gauge field theory on the lattice in geometrical formulation
I have found an article by Huebschmann, Rudolph and Schmidt about "A Gauge Model for Quantum Mechanics on a Stratified Space" and I am very interested in this subject, but I don't have any ...
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Reference for some elementary facts about principal bundles
Let $(P,\pi,B,G)$ be a principal bundle with total space $P$, base $B$, projection $\pi$ and structure group $G$.
Now I am searching for a good reference (with proofs) for the following facts:
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Central Yang-Mills connections, and flat connections with prescribed holonomy
Let $X$ be $\Sigma^g$ which is the Riemann surface of genus $g$, and consider a trivial $G$-bundle over it.
1) In this $2$-d setting, the space of Yang-Mills central connections is the set of ...
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gauge theory construction of vector bundles on singular varieties
This is sort of a follow-up to:
Gauge theory construction of moduli of vector bundles
If I have a complex compact algebraic curve with at worst nodal singularities, is there an analytic description ...
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Gauge theory construction of moduli of vector bundles
Given a smooth projective complex variety $X$, instead of using Mumford's GIT to construct the moduli of rank $n$ topologically trivial vector bundles, we can also take the gauge theory approach.
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Can all G-connections on a Riemann surface X be induced by maps from X to G
There is the invariant Maurer–Cartan 1-form on a compact semi-simple Lie group G. So if we pull it back using a map from X to G then we get a G-connection on X. The question is, can all G-connections ...
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Seiberg-Witten theory on 4-manifolds with boundary
What generalizations of Seiberg-Witten theory to 4-manifolds with boundary do exist?
I would be especially interested in theories which "behave good" under gluing along the boundary (comparable to ...
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Deriving symmetries of a Gauge theory
Hello,
I don't know if this is a good place for exposing my problem but I'll try...
I have a gauge theory with action:
$S=\int\;dt L=\int d^4 x \;\epsilon^{\mu\nu\rho\sigma} B_{\mu\nu\;IJ} F_{\mu\nu}...
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Looking for reference on gauge fields as connections.
Can anyone give me references where I would see a detailed exposition of how to translate gauge field theory as known to physicists into the language of connections. I am looking for a detailed ...
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Casson's invariant and the trivial connection contribution to witten's 3-manifold invariant
This question might turn out not to make any sense, but here it is: Witten's (and Reshetikhin and Turaev's) 3-manifold invariant can be "defined" as an integral over the space of connections on the ...
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Monopole classes on hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Let $M$ be a closed hyperbolic $3$-manifold, and $e \in H^2(M)$ an integral cohomology class which is the first Chern class of a $Spin^c$ structure on $M$. Suppose there is a solution to the monopole ...
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The "miracle" of Heegard Floer.
Taking tori in symmetric products and "miraculously" proving that the Floer homology is independent of choices always seemed, well, miraculous. Some time ago Max Lipyanski explained to me the origins ...
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