Spinor Decomposition of SU(2) Gauge Potential and Spinor Structures of Chern–Simons and Chern Density**The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Doctor Education Fund of the Ministry of Education of China

Abstract

In this paper, the decomposition of SU(2) gauge potential in terms of Pauli spinor is studied. Using this decomposition, the spinor structures of Chern–Simons form and the Chern density are obtained. Furthermore, the knot quantum number of non-Abelian gauge theory can be expressed by the Chern–Simons spinor structure, and the second Chern number is characterized by the Hopf indices and the Brouwer degrees of Φ-mapping.