Subsidiary condition for Yang-Mills theory

1983 ◽  
Vol 28 (12) ◽  
pp. 3054-3065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt Haller
2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (04) ◽  
pp. 1750014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Wrochna ◽  
Jochen Zahn

We investigate linearized gauge theories on globally hyperbolic spacetimes in the BRST formalism. A consistent definition of the classical phase space and of its Cauchy surface analogue is proposed. We prove that it is isomorphic to the phase space in the ‘subsidiary condition’ approach of Hack and Schenkel in the case of Maxwell, Yang–Mills, and Rarita–Schwinger fields. Defining Hadamard states in the BRST formalism in a standard way, their existence in the Maxwell and Yang–Mills case is concluded from known results in the subsidiary condition (or Gupta–Bleuler) formalism. Within our framework, we also formulate criteria for non-degeneracy of the phase space in terms of BRST cohomology and discuss special cases. These include an example in the Yang–Mills case, where degeneracy is not related to a non-trivial topology of the Cauchy surface.


Author(s):  
Laurent Baulieu ◽  
John Iliopoulos ◽  
Roland Sénéor

A geometrical derivation of Abelian and non- Abelian gauge theories. The Faddeev–Popov quantisation. BRST invariance and ghost fields. General discussion of BRST symmetry. Application to Yang–Mills theories and general relativity. A brief history of gauge theories.


1995 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 2402-2411 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. R. Hu ◽  
S. G. Matinyan ◽  
B. Müller ◽  
A. Trayanov ◽  
T. M. Gould ◽  
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2007 ◽  
Vol 783 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudarshan Ananth ◽  
Stefano Kovacs ◽  
Hidehiko Shimada
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1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (23) ◽  
pp. 2077-2085 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. POPOV

The anti-self-duality equations for gauge fields in d = 4 and a generalization of these equations to dimension d = 4n are considered. For gauge fields with values in an arbitrary semisimple Lie algebra [Formula: see text] we introduce the ansatz which reduces the anti-self-duality equations in the Euclidean space ℝ4n to a system of equations breaking up into the well known Nahm's equations and some linear equations for scalar field φ.


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