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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480640503321

Autore

Lévy Thierry <1976->

Titolo

Yang-Mills measure on compact surfaces / / Thierry Lévy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 2003

ISBN

1-4704-0388-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; number 790

Disciplina

510 s

530.14/35

Soggetti

Yang-Mills theory

Quantum field theory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Volume 166, number 790 (end of volume)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1. Discrete Yang-Mills measure""; ""1.1. Notation""; ""1.2. Discretization of a surface""; ""1.3. Discrete holonomy and gauge transformations""; ""1.4. Discrete Yang-Mills measure""; ""1.5. Conditional Yang-Mills measure""; ""1.6. Invariance under subdivision""; ""1.7. Invariance under area-preserving diffeomorphisms""; ""1.8. Two examples""; ""1.9. Discrete Abelian theory""; ""Chapter 2. Continuous Yang-Mills measure""; ""2.1. Projective systems of probability spaces""; ""2.2. A Riemannian metric""; ""2.3. Piecewise geodesic Yang-Mills measure""

""2.4. Lassos and small piecewise geodesic loops""""2.5. The space of paths""; ""2.6. Definition of the random holonomy""; ""2.7. Consistency with the discrete theory""; ""2.8. Binding up the conditional versions""; ""2.9. Surfaces with boundary""; ""2.10. The random holonomy process""; ""Chapter 3. Abelian gauge theory""; ""3.1. The random holonomy as a white noise functional""; ""3.2. Small scale structure of the Yang-Mills field""; ""Chapter 4. Small scale structure in the semi-simple case""; ""4.1. Asymptotic independence: a zero-one law""; ""4.2. Asymptotic independence on the plane""

""Chapter 5. Surgery of the Yang-Mills measure""""5.1. Markov property of the Yang-Mills field""; ""5.2. Sewing two surfaces""; ""5.3. Mending a surface""; ""5.4. An area-dependent topological field theory"";



""Bibliography""