Damiano Anselmi 1997 Class. Quantum Grav. 14 1015 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/14/5/010
Damiano Anselmi
Show affiliationsVarious aspects of the so-called topological embedding, a procedure recently proposed for quantizing a field theory around a non-discrete space of classical minima, are discussed and collected in a simple logical scheme. The possible physical implications are pointed out. The compatibility of the procedure with renormalization is illustrated in the case of the Yang - Mills theory expanded around instantons. The quantum topological properties of Yang - Mills instantons are re-derived in a simpler and illustrative way. Moreover, the general approach is applied to the free energy of the Ginzburg - Landau theory of superconductivity in the intermediate situation between type I and type II superconductors. The topological version of the theory is solved and the quantum topological sectors of the static vortices are classified.
74.20.De Phenomenological theories (two-fluid, Ginzburg-Landau, etc.)
81T45 Topological field theories (See also 57R56, 58Dxx)
81T70 Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (See also 58D29)
81T13 Yang-Mills and other gauge theories (See also 53C07, 58E15)
Issue 5 (May 1997)
Received 1 July 1996, in final form 13 February 1997
Damiano Anselmi 1997 Class. Quantum Grav. 14 1015
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