Photon inner product and the Gauss linking number

Preprint

7 August 1996

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.gr-qc/9608017

Abstract

It is shown that there is an interesting interplay between self-duality, loop representation and knots 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 as the Gauss linking number of thickened loops.

Keywords

GAUSS LINKING NUMBER
LOOP REPRESENTATION
DUAL CONNECTIONS
MAXWELL FIELDS
LINKING NUMBER
REPRESENTATION
PHOTON

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Version 1, 1996-08-07, ArXiv
Published version: Classical and Quantum Gravity, 14 (1A), A43.

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