The Reconstruction of Gauge Potentials From Wilson Loops

Mar, 1981
30 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 24 (1981) 2160
Report number:
  • MIT-CTP-920

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Abstract: (APS)
The algebraic relations between open and closed path-ordered phases and Wilson loop variables in gauge theories are discussed. It is shown that the generalized Mandelstam constraints of order N constitute sufficient algebraic conditions on Wilson loop variables to allow reconstruction of a corresponding gauge potential.
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: WILSON LOOP
  • GROUP THEORY
  • TRANSFORMATION: GAUGE
  • POTENTIAL