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Yang-Mills and Maxwell configurations in de Sitter space: relevance for quantum theory?

  • Olaf Lechtenfeld (University of Hanover, Germany)
E1 05 (Leibniz-Saal)

Abstract

I will review analytic SU(2) Yang-Mills solutions with finite action on de Sitter space from a new perspective. As a byproduct, all abelian solutions are classified and related with rational electromagnetic knots. In an attempt to semiclassically quantize Yang-Mills or Maxwell theory on de Sitter space, these extremal configurations should play a role in the path integral. In the Yang-Mills case, the gravitational backreaction is easily taken in to account as well.

Antje Vandenberg

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig), Germany Contact via Mail

Felix Finster

University of Regensburg, Germany

Domenico Giulini

University of Hanover, Germany

Jürgen Jost

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig), Germany

Johannes Kleiner

University of Hanover, Germany

Jürgen Tolksdorf

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig), Germany