On the bundle of connections and the gauge orbit manifold in Yang-Mills theory

DOI10.1007/BF01209307zbMath0474.58004OpenAlexW2014470759MaRDI QIDQ1158871

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01209307

zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert manifold bundle of connections compact connected orientable Riemannian manifold without boundary fixing gauges in Yang-Mills theory smooth connections smooth principle G bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Spaces and manifolds of mappings (including nonlinear versions of 46Exx) (58D99)

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