Memory in non-Abelian gauge theory

Description

A research project submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand,
in fulfillment for the degree of Master of Science in Physics. May 25, 2017. / This project addresses the study of the memory effect. We review the effect in electromagnetism, which is an abelian gauge theory. We prove that we can shift the phase factor by performing a gauge transformation. The gauge group is U(1). We extend the study to the nonabelian gauge theory by computing the memory in SU(2) which vanishes up to the first order Taylor expansion.
Keywords: Memory Effect, Aharonov-Bohm effect, Nonabelian Gauge Theory, Supersymmetry / GR2018

Links & Downloads

1. Gadjagboui, Bourgeois Biova Irenee (2017) Memory in non-Abelian gauge theory, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://hdl.handle.net/10539/23768>
2. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/23768

Tags

Gauge fields (Physics)--Mathematics

Gauge invariance

Abelian groups

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/23768
Date	January 2017
Creators	Gadjagboui, Bourgeois Biova Irenee
Source Sets	South African National ETD Portal
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Thesis
Format	Online resource (vii, 66 leaves), application/pdf