On étudie les théories de Yang-Mills. Pour ce faire, nous appliquons une nouvelle procédure de fixation de jauge qui vise à prendre en compte la présence des copies de Gribov. Ces copies correspondent à des solutions supplémentaires de la condition de jauge et ne sont pas prises en compte dans la procédure standard de Faddeev-Popov. Cette nouvelle procédure de fixation de jauge a d'abord été implémenté dans la jauge de Landau, où le régime de basse énergie a pu être étudié simplement par la théorie de perturbation et les propagateurs des gluons et des ghosts ont été trouvé en bon accord avec les résultats du réseau. Dans une première partie, nous appliquons cette procédure à une classe de jauges covariantes et non-linéaires (les jauges de Curci-Ferrari-Delbourgo-Jarvis). Nous montrons que ces jauges sont renormalisables en dimension quatre et donnons explicitement les expressions des constantes de renormalisation à une boucle. Nous calculons en théorie de perturbation les propagateurs de la théorie à l'ordre d'une boucle et implémentons le groupe de renormalisation. La seconde partie concerne l'étude du cas à température finie et de la transition de phase confinement-déconfinement. Nous travaillons dans une extention massive de la jauge de Landau-DeWitt. Nous calculons les propagateurs à une boucle et montrons qu'ils présentent de clairs signaux de la transition de phase à la différence de la jauge de Landau. / We investigate Yang-Mills theories. In particular, we follow a recently proposed new gauge-fixing procedure that aims at dealing with the presence of the so-called Gribov copies. These copies correspond to additional solutions to the gauge equation that are disregarded in the standard Faddeev-Popov procedure. This novel gauge-fixing approach was first implemented in the Landau gauge, where the low momentum regime was investigable by means of simple perturbation theory and the one-loop gluon and ghost propagators were found in good agreement with lattice results. In a first part, we extend this proposal to a class of nonlinear covariant (the Curci-Ferrari-Delbourgo-Jarvis) gauges . We prove that these gauges are renormalizable in four dimensions. We provide explicit expression of the renormalization constants at one-loop order. Then we compute the various propagators of the theory at one-loop order with and without renormalization group improvement. The second part of the thesis concerns the finite temperature case and in particular the study of the confinement-deconfinement phase transition. We work in the Landau-DeWitt gauge (a background extention of the Landau gauge) which allows for an explicit presence of an order parameter of the phase transition. This gauge is implemented following the previous gauge-fixing procedure. In particular it has been shown that the phase transition can be studied in perturbation theory. Here, we compute at one-loop order the gluon and ghost propagators (for SU(2) gauge group) and show that they display strong signals of the phase transition. This is to be put in regards with the results obtained for the Landau gauge propagators.

Cette thèse porte sur plusieurs questions liées aux mesures de Yang-Mills planaires et aux champs markoviens d'holonomies planaires. Les problèmes sont de deux sortes : étude des champs markoviens d'holonomies planaires pour un groupe de structure donné et l'étude asymptotique des mesures de Yang-Mills lorsque la dimension du groupe tend vers l'infini. On définit la notion de champs markoviens d'holonomies planaires qui axiomatise la notion de mesures de Yang-Mills planaires. En utilisant une nouvelle symétrie en théorie des probabilités, l'invariance par tresse, on construit, caractérise et classifie les champs markoviens d'holonomies planaires. Nous montrons que tout champ markovien d'holonomies planaire est associé à un processus de Lévy qui satisfait une condition de symétrie et vice-versa. Ceci nous permet de caractériser, pour les surfaces sphériques, les champs markoviens d'holonomies tels que définis précédemment par Thierry Lévy. Lorsque le groupe de structure est le groupe symétrique, on peut construire le champ markovien d'holonomies planaire associé grâce à un modèle de revêtements aléatoires. On prouve la convergence des monodromies de ce revêtement aléatoire en s'appuyant sur l'étude, développée dans cette thèse, de l'asymptotique des matrices aléatoires invariantes par conjugaison par le groupe symétrique. / This thesis focuses on planar Yang-Mills measures and planar Markovian holonomy fields. We consider two different questions : the study of planar Markovian holonomy fields with fixed structure group and the asymptotic study of the planar Yang-Mills measures when the dimension of the structure group grows. We define the notion of planar Markovian holonomy fields which generalizes the concept of planar Yang-Mills measures. We construct, characterize and classify the planar Markovian holonomy fields by introducing a new symmetry : the invariance under the action of braids. We show that there is a bijection between planar Markovian holonomy fields and some equivalent classes of Lévy processes. We use these results in order to characterize Markovian holonomy fields on spherical surfaces. The Markovian holonomy fields with the symmetric group as structure group can be constructed using random ramified coverings. We prove that the monodromies of these models of random ramified coverings converge as the number of sheets of the covering goes to infinity. To prove this, we develop general tools in order to study the limits of families of random matrices invariant by the symmetric group. This allows us to generalize ideas, developped by Thierry Lévy in order to study the planar Yang-Mills measure with the unitary structure group, to the setting where the structure group is the symmetric group.

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This thesis carries out a detailed investigation of the action for pure Yang-Mills theory which L. Mason formulated in twistor space. The rich structure of twistor space results in greater gauge freedom compared to the theory in ordinary space-time. One particular gauge choice, the CSW gauge, allows simplifications to be made at both the classical and quantum level. The equations of motion have an interesting form in the CSW gauge, which suggests a possible solution procedure. This is explored in three special cases. Explicit solutions are found in each case and connections with earlier work are examined. The equations are then reformulated in Minkowski space, in order to deal with an initial-value, rather than boundary-value, problem. An interesting form of the Yang-Mills equation is obtained, for which we propose an iteration procedure. The quantum theory is also simplified by adopting the CSW gauge. The Feynman rules are derived and are shown to reproduce the MHV diagram formalism straightforwardly, once LSZ reduction is taken into account. The three-point amplitude missing in the MHV formalism can be recovered in our theory. Finally, relations to Mansfield’s canonical transformation approach are elucidated.

Understanding physical configurations and how these can emerge from the underlying gauge theory is a fundamental problem in modern particle physics. This thesis investigates the study of these configurations primarily focussing on the need for gauge invariance in constructing the gauge invariant fields for any physical theory. We consider Wu’s approach to gauge invariance by identifying the gauge symmetry preserving conditions in quantum electrodynamics and demonstrate how Wu’s conditions for one-loop order calculations (under various regularisation schemes) leads to the maintenance of gauge invariance. The need for gauge invariance is stressed and the consequences discussed in terms of the Ward identities for which various examples and proofs are presented in this thesis. We next consider Zwanziger’s description of a mass term in Yang-Mills theory, where an expansion is introduced in terms of the quadratic and cubic powers of the field strength. Although Zwanziger introduced this expansion there is, however, no derivation or discussion about how it arises and how it may be extended to higher orders. We show how Zwanziger’s expansion in terms of the inverse covariant Laplacian can be derived and extended to higher orders. An explicit derivation is presented, for the first time, for the next to next to leading order term. The role of dressings and their factorisation lies at the heart of this analysis.

This thesis is concerned with the Schrödinger representation of quantum field theory. We describe techniques for solving the Schrödinger equation which supplement the standard techniques of field theory. Our aim is to develop these to the point where they can readily be used to address problems of current interest. To this end, we study realistic models such as gauge theories coupled to dynamical fermions. For maximal generality we consider particles of all physical spins, in various dimensions, and eventually, curved spacetimes. We begin by considering Gaussian fields, and proceed to a detailed study of the Schwinger model, which is, amongst other things, a useful model for (3+1) dimensional gauge theory. One of the most important developments of recent years is a conjecture by Mal-dacena which relates supergravity and string/M-theory on anti-de-Sitter spacetimes to conformal field theories on their boundaries. This correspondence has a natural interpretation in the Schrödinger representation, so we solve the Schrödinger equation for fields of arbitrary spin in anti-de-Sitter spacetimes, and use this to investigate the conjectured correspondence. Our main result is to calculate the Weyl anomalies arising from supergravity fields, which, summed over the supermultiplets of type JIB supergravity compactified on AdS(_s) x S(^5) correctly matches the anomaly calculated in the conjecturally dual N = 4 SU{N) super-Yang-Mills theory. This is one of the few existing pieces of evidence for Maldacena's conjecture beyond leading order in TV.

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Master of Science. Johannesburg, 2016. / The AdS/CFT correspondence is a conjectured exact duality between type IIB string theory on the AdS5 S5 background and N = 4 Super Yang-Mills theory, a conformal eld theory (CFT), on the boundary of the AdS space. A speci c observable of the CFT, which can be read from the two point correlation function, is the anomalous dimension. In this dissertation we will compute spectra of anomalous dimensions of excited giant gravitons up to two loops in a speci c limit. We are interested in the anomalous dimensions because the AdS/CFT correspondence associates them with energies of states in quantum gravity. We study operators constructed using n Z elds and m Y elds with n << m: In this case m n is a small parameter. At the leading order in m n and at large N, the problem of determining the anomalous dimensions can be mapped into the dynamics of m non-interacting magnons. The subleading terms at two loops, computed for the rst time in this dissertation, induce interactions between the magnons. Even after including this new correction, we nd the BPS operators remain BPS. / MT2016

Orientador: Gastão Krein / Banca: Marcus Aloizio Martinez de Aguiar / Banca: Tobias Frederico / Banca: Sérgio Szpigel / Banca: Adriano Antonio Natale / Resumo: Nesta tese, dedicamo-nos a estudar a evolução temporal gerada pela hamiltoniana de uma teoria de Yang-Mills-Higgs clássica com simetria de calibre SU(2) em uma rede espacial. Em particular, estudamos transferência de energia e processos de equilibrção entre os setores de calibre e de Higgs, calculamos os expoentes de Liapunov máximos referentes a condições randômicas iniciais no regime de fraco acoplamento, onde espera-se que eles estejam relacionados à taxa de amortecimento estático do plasmon a alta temperatura, e investigamos sua dependência com a energia e o parâmetro de auto-acoplamento de Higgs. Examinamos ainda erros de tamanho finito e de tempo finito, avaliamos o impacto dos campos de Higgs na instabilidade de campos magnéticos não-abelianos constantes e comentamos as implicações dos nossos resultados obtidos para as propriedades de termalização de campos de calibre a temperatura finita na presença de matéria. / Abstract: In this thesis, we are dedicated to study the time evolution generated by the hamiltonian of a classical Yang-Mills-Higgs theory with gauge symmetry SU(2) on a spatial lattice. In particular, we study energy transfer and equilibration processes among the gauge and Higgs sectors, calculate the maximal Liapunov exponents regarding to random initial conditions in the regime of weak coupling, where one expects them to be related to the high-temperature static plasmon damping rate, and investigate their energy and Higgs self-coupling parameter dependence. We further examine finite-time and finite-size errors, value the impact of the Higgs fields on the instabilty of constant non-abelian magnetic fields and comment on the implications of our obtained results for the thermalization properties of gauge fields at finite temperature in the presence of matter. / Doutor

Orientador: Ricardo Antonio Mosna / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-24T14:09:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tavares_GustavoMarques_M.pdf: 695474 bytes, checksum: c437bafa3afb0c0768437e1a139eea12 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Neste trabalho estudamos os instantons da teoria de Yang-Mills nos espaços de Schwarzs-child e de Reissner-Nordstrom com grupo de gauge SU(2).Instantons são soluções clássicas da teoria de Yang-Mills definida em um espaço com métrica riemanniana (positiva-definida) e com ação finita. Primeiramente revisamos a formulação geométrica da teoria de Yang-Mills em uma variedade 4-dimensional,identificando os campos de gauge com conexões em um fibrado principal. Em seguida apresentamos os principais resultados clássicos relacionados aos instantons no espaço plano. Na segunda parte da dissertação realizamos um estudo sistemático das soluções da teoria de Yang-Mills nos espaços de Schwarzschild e de Reissner-Nordstrom euclidianos. Esta abordagem nos permitiu descobrir novas famílias de instantons neste contexto.Ainda,os resultados obtidos mostram que o número de famílias de instantons no espaço de Reissner- Nordstrom depende diretamente da carga elétrica que caracteriza esta geometria / Abstract: In this work we study instanton solutions of the Yang-Mills theory in Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstrom spaces with gauge group SU(2).Instantons are solutions to the classical field equations of Yang-Mills theory defined in a space with Riemannian (positive de finite)metric with finite action. We begin with a review of the geometric setting of Yang-Mills theory on a four dimensional manifold,which relates the gauge fields to connections on a fiber bundle.We proceed by presenting the main results related to instantons in flat space. In the second part of this thesis we perform a systematic study of the solutions of Yang-Mills theory in Euclidian Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstrom spaces.This approach led us to discover a new family of instantons de fined in those backgrounds. Moreover, our results show that the number of instanton families in the Reissner-Nordstrom space depends directly on the eletric charge which caracterizes this geometry / Mestrado / Física das Particulas Elementares e Campos / Mestre em Física

In this thesis, topologically massive Yang-Mills theory is studied in the framework of geometric quantization. This theory has a mass gap that is proportional to the topological mass m. Thus, Yang-Mills contribution decays exponentially at very large distances compared to 1/m, leaving a pure Chern-Simons theory with level number k. The focus of this research is the near Chern-Simons limit of the theory, where the distance is large enough to give an almost topological theory, with a small contribution from the Yang-Mills term. It is shown that this almost topological theory consists of two copies of Chern-Simons with level number k/2, very similar to the Chern-Simons splitting of topologically massive AdS gravity model. As m approaches to infinity, the split parts add up to give the original Chern-Simons term with level k. Also, gauge invariance of the split CS theories is discussed for odd values of k. Furthermore, a relation between the observables of topologically massive Yang-Mills theory and Chern-Simons theory is obtained. It is shown that one of the two split Chern-Simons pieces is associated with Wilson loops while the other with 't Hooft loops. This allows one to use skein relations to calculate topologically massive Yang-Mills theory observables in the near Chern-Simons limit. Finally, motivated with the topologically massive AdS gravity model, Chern-Simons splitting concept is extended to pure Yang-Mills theory at large distances. It is shown that pure Yang-Mills theory acts like two Chern-Simons theories with level numbers k/2 and -k/2 at large scales. At very large scales, these two terms cancel to make the theory trivial, as required by the existence of a mass gap.