Author : Ambar Sengupta
Release : 1997
Genre : Mathematics
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Gauge Theory on Compact Surfaces by : Ambar Sengupta
Download or read book Gauge Theory on Compact Surfaces written by Ambar Sengupta. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper we develop a concrete description of connections on principal bundles, possibly non-trivial, over compact surfaces and use this description to construct the Yang-Mills measure which underlies the Euclidean quantum theory of gauge fields, involving compact gauge groups, on compact connected two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds (possibly with boundary). Using this measure we compute expectation values of important random variables, the Wilson loops variables, corresponding to a broad class of configurations of loops on the surface.