Teh, Nicholas and Schenkel, Alexander and Wells, Laura and Mathieu, Philippe (2019) Homological perspective on edge modes in linear Yang-Mills theory. [Preprint]

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Abstract

We provide an elegant homological construction of the extended phase space for linear Yang-Mills theory on an oriented and time-oriented Lorentzian manifold M with a time-like boundary ∂M that was proposed by Donnelly and Freidel [JHEP 1609, 102 (2016)]. This explains and formalizes many of the rather ad hoc constructions for edge modes appearing in the theoretical physics literature.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Teh, Nicholas nteh@nd.edu Schenkel, Alexander alexander.schenkel@nottingham.ac.uk Wells, Laura lwells@nd.edu Mathieu, Philippe pmathieu@nd.edu
Keywords:	gauge symmetry, category theory, stacks, empirical significance, philosophy of symmetry, philosophy of quantum field theory
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances
Depositing User:	Dr Nicholas Teh
Date Deposited:	31 Jul 2019 01:04
Last Modified:	31 Jul 2019 01:04
Item ID:	16271
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances
Date:	29 July 2019
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16271

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