Gauge-Natural Bundles and Generalized Gauge Theories

Download or read book Gauge-Natural Bundles and Generalized Gauge Theories written by David J. Eck and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1981 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of gauge-natural bundles is introduced. They are a generalization of natural bundles and they provide a natural formal context for the discussion of gauge field theories. It is shown that such bundles correspond to actions of certain Lie groups on smooth manifolds and that natural differential operators between them correspond to equivariant maps. Some results of classical gauge theory are reformulated and reproved in the language of gauge-natural bundles, including a theorem of Utiyama which describes first order gauge-invariant Lagrangians on the bundle of connections of a principal bundle.