Geometrical Aspects of Gauge Theories
Cesare Reina
- Vector bundles. Metrics, connections and curvature.
- The space of connections and the Yang-Mills functional.
- The group of gauge transformations and its action on the space of connections. The orbit spaces.
- Gauge fixing and the Gribov ambiguity.
- The Faddeev-Popov method.
- Determinat of the chiral Dirac operator and anomalies.
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- Singer, Commumn. Math. Phys. 60 (1978) 7-12
- Freed, Uhlenbeck, Instantons and four-manifolds, Springer (1984)
- Donaldson, Kronheimer, The geometry of four-Manifolds, Claredon (1990)