ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

On the existence of the functional measure for 2D Yang-Mills theory

Authors 1

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University, Hoża 69, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

We prove the existence of the path-integral measure of two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory, as a probabilistic Radon measure on the "generalized orbit space" of gauge connections modulo gauge transformations, suitably completed following the approach of Ashtekar and Lewandowski.

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Pages:
225-229
Main language of publication
English
Published
1997
Exact and natural sciences