Global aspects of fixing the gauge in the Polyakov string and Einstein gravity
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Global aspects of fixing the gauge in the Polyakov string and Einstein gravity
zbMATH Open document ID: 0574.58034
DOI: 10.1007/BF01212451
published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics
publication date: 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: In 1978 \textit{I. M. Singer} [ibid. 60, 7-12 (1978; Zbl 0379.53009)] showed that an obstruction to fixing the gauge in Yang-Mills theories existed on topological grounds. In the present paper the author shows that analogous obstructions exist in fixing a continuous global gauge in the Polyakov string theory and also in 4-dimensional Einstein gravity.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58J90
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81T08
zbMATH DE Number: 3917319
zbMATH Keywords: Gauge fixing
zbMATH Keywords: global analysis
zbMATH Keywords: Yang-Mills theories
zbMATH Keywords: Polyakov string theory
zbMATH Keywords: 4-dimensional Einstein gravity
author: Timothy Killingback
reviewed by: Chandra Shekhar Sharma
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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Wikidata QID: Q126113001
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01212451
OpenAlex ID: W1990927365
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