Photon inner product and the Gauss-linking number
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Photon Inner – product and the Gauss Linking Number
It is shown that there is an interesting interplay between selfduality, loop representation and knot invariants in the quantum theory of Maxwell fields in Minkowski space-time. Specifically, in the loop representation based on self-dual connections, the measure that dictates the inner-product can be expressed in terms of the Gauss linking number of thickened loops. Typeset using REVTEX ∗Electro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Classical and Quantum Gravity
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0264-9381,1361-6382
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/14/1a/005