Induced Gauge Fields in the Path Integral
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چکیده
The path integral on a homogeneous space G/H is constructed, based on the guiding principle ‘first lift to G and then project to G/H ’. It is then shown that this principle admits inequivalent quantizations inducing a gauge field (the canonical connection) on the homogeneous space, and thereby reproduces the result obtained earlier by algebraic approaches. ∗E-mail: [email protected] †E-mail: [email protected]
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