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Inequivalent Quantizations of Gauge Theories
Kenichi Horiesubject
PhysicsHigh Energy Physics - TheoryNuclear and High Energy PhysicsFOS: Physical sciencesAstronomy and AstrophysicsAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsQuantization (physics)Theoretical physicsHigh Energy Physics::TheoryHigh Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)CosetGauge theoryConfiguration spaceQuantumdescription
It is known that the quantization of a system defined on a topologically non-trivial configuration space is ambiguous in that many inequivalent quantum systems are possible. This is the case for multiply connected spaces as well as for coset spaces. Recently, a new framework for these inequivalent quantizations approach has been proposed by McMullan and Tsutsui, which is based on a generalized Dirac approach. We employ this framework for the quantization of the Yang-Mills theory in the simplest fashion. The resulting inequivalent quantum sectors are labelled by quantized non-dynamical topological charges.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999-05-14 |