TG-Equivariance of Connections and Gauge Transformations

1996/05/09 by H. M. Bosselmann, Bosselmann, H. M., N. A. Papadopoulos +2
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Topics in Algebra #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Mathematics and Applications #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9605071

12 pages

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Abstract

We consider the notion of a connection on a principal bundle P(M,G) from the point of view of the action of the tangential group TG. This leads to a new definition of a connection and allows to interpret gauge transformations as effect of the TG action.

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