Abstract
The formalism of constraints, reviewed in paper I, is applied to Yang-Mills theory to determine the physical phase space. This turns out to be the cotangent bundle of orbit space, the space of gauge inequivalent potentials. Self-dual configurations are not Hamiltonian with respect to the symplectic structure inherited from the general system.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 125-148 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications |
| Volume | 139 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 1986 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- Condensed Matter Physics