Some properties of orbit space in Yang-Mills theory
Abstract
In Yang-Mills theory, it is shown that the Ricci tensor in the orbit space is always positively defined. Nevertheless, the orbit space cannot be considered as compact because it contains infinite-dimensional Euclidean hypersurfaces.
- Publication:
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Letters in Mathematical Physics
- Pub Date:
- September 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00398761
- Bibcode:
- 1983LMaPh...7..399V
- Keywords:
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- Statistical Physic;
- Group Theory;
- Ricci Tensor;
- Orbit Space;
- Euclidean Hypersurface