SYMPLECTIC REDUCTION FOR YANG–MILLS ON A CYLINDER

Abstract

An account of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics of the pure Yang–Mills system is presented. This framework is applied to the case of (1+1)-dimensional cylindrical spacetime. Hamiltonian dynamics on the space of connections over a circle is often identified with dynamics on the cotangent bundle of the gauge group by means of the holonomy. In support of this procedure we show that the symplectic structure for Hamiltonian dynamics for connections on a circle is identifiable with the natural symplectic structure on the cotangent bundle of the gauge group.