On the bundle of connections and the gauge orbit manifold in Yang-Mills theory

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In an appropriate mathematical framework we supply a simple proof that the quotienting of the space of connections by the group of gauge transformations (in Yang-Mills theory) is aC ∞ principal fibration. The underlying quotient space, the gauge orbit space, is seen explicitly to be aC ∞ manifold modelled on a Hilbert space.