Projective techniques and functional integration for gauge theories
- 1 May 1995
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 36 (5), 2170-2191
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.531037
Abstract
A general framework for integration over certain infinite dimensional spaces is first developed using projective limits of a projective family of compact Hausdorff spaces. The procedure is then applied to gauge theories to carry out integration over the non-linear, infinite dimensional spaces of connections modulo gauge transformations. This method of evaluating functional integrals can be used either in the Euclidean path integral approach or the Lorentzian canonical approach. A number of measures discussed are diffeomorphism invariant and therefore of interest to (the connection dynamics version of) quantum general relativity. The account is pedagogical; in particular, prior knowledge of projective techniques is not assumed.Keywords
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