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connection space approach to ambiguities of gauge theories连接空间模糊方法评估理论

CONNECTION SPACE APPROACH TO AMBIGUITIES OF GAUGE THEORIES R. ALDROVANDI AND A. L. BARBOSA Received 24 October 2004 and in revised form 17 July 2005 Two distinct gauge potentials can have the same ﬁeld strength, in which case they are said to be “copies” of each other. The consequences of this ambiguity for the general aﬃne space of gauge potentials are examined. Any two potentials are connected by a straight line in , but a straight line going through two copies either contains no other copy or is entirely formed by copies. 1. Introduction In an nonabelian gauge theory, two or more distinct gauge potentials can correspond to the same ﬁeld strength. As only ﬁeld strengths are measurable, it is impossible to know exactly which gauge potential is actually at work in a given physical system. This is the Wu-Yang ambiguity [26], whose importance comes from the fact that, in quantum ﬁeld theory, the fundamental ﬁelds are the gauge potentials and not the ﬁeld strengths. In particular, the corresponding particles are the quanta of the gauge potentials. A good understanding of this ambiguity, in all its aspects and consequences, does not seem to have been as yet achieved. Activity on the subject has been intensive in the ﬁrst years after its discovery [4, 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 25] but declined afterwards [19]. Progress has been made step by step, sometimes through the discovery of general properties of formal character [9, 10], most of times by unearthing particular cases which elucidate special points [3]. This paper presents a formal property which shows up in the space of gauge poten- tials and provides (at least) a partial classiﬁcation of the connections corresponding to a given curvature. We will use both the physicist’s and the mathematician’s nomenclatures interchangeably. It should perhaps be recalled that what physicists call “gauge potentials” and “ﬁeld strengths” are, in the language of mathematicians, “connections” and “curva- tures”