Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2005-07-28
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A21 (2006) 3771-3808
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
35 pages; shorter published version with some small changes
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217751X06030977
We study a possibly integrable model of abelian gauge fields on a two-dimensional surface M, with volume form mu. It has the same phase space as ideal hydrodynamics, a coadjoint orbit of the volume-preserving diffeomorphism group of M, SDiff(M,mu). Gauge field Poisson brackets differ from the Heisenberg algebra, but are reminiscent of Yang-Mills theory on a null surface. Enstrophy invariants are Casimirs of the Poisson algebra of gauge invariant observables. Some symplectic leaves of the Poisson manifold are identified. The Hamiltonian is a magnetic energy, similar to that of electrodynamics, and depends on a metric whose volume element is not a multiple of mu. The magnetic field evolves by a quadratically non-linear `Euler' equation, which may also be regarded as describing geodesic flow on SDiff(M,mu). Static solutions are obtained. For uniform mu, an infinite sequence of local conserved charges beginning with the hamiltonian are found. The charges are shown to be in involution, suggesting integrability. Besides being a theory of a novel kind of ideal flow, this is a toy-model for Yang-Mills theory and matrix field theories, whose gauge-invariant phase space is conjectured to be a coadjoint orbit of the diffeomorphism group of a non-commutative space.
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