Quantum Yang-Mills on the two-sphere
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We obtain the quantum expectations of gauge-invariant functions of the connection on a principalG=SU(N) bundle overS2. We show that the spaceA/gm of connections modulo gauge transformations which are the identity at one point is itself a principal bundle over ΩG, based loops in the symmetry group. The fiber inA/gm is an affine linear space. Quantum expectations are iterated path integrals first over this fiber then over ΩG, each with respect to the push-forward toA/gm of the measure s-S(A)DA.S(A) denotes the Yang-Mills action onA. There is a global section ofA/gm on which the first integral is a Gaussian. The resulting measure on ΩG is the conditional Wiener measure. We explicitly compute the expectations of a special class of Wilson loops.- gauge field theory: SU(N)
- dimension: 2
- space-time: sphere
- fibre bundle
- path integral
- Wilson loop
- mathematical methods
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