https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612900016
Classical Higgs fields on gauge gluon bundles
1 Department of Mathematics, University of Torino, via C. Alberto 10, 10123 Torino, Italy
2 Lepage Research Institute, University of Prešov, 17 November 1, 081 16 Prešov, Slovak Republic
* e-mail: marcella.palese@unito.it
** corresponding author, e-mail: ekkehart.winterroth@unito.it
Published online: 25 November 2016
Classical Higgs fields and related canonical conserved quantities are defined by invariant variational problems on suitably defined gauge gluon bundles. We consider Lagrangian field theories which are assumed to be invariant with respect to the action of a gauge-natural group. As an illustrative example we exploit the ‘gluon Lagrangian’, i.e. a Yang-Mills Lagrangian on the (1, 1)-order gauge-natural bundle of SU(3)-principal connections. The kernel of the gauge-natural Jacobi morphism for such a Lagrangian, by inducing a reductive split structure, canonically defines a ‘gluon classical Higgs field’.
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