Abstract Wiener measure using abelian Yang-Mills action on $\mathbb{R}^4$ (1701.01529v7)

Abstract: Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be the Lie algebra of a compact Lie group. For a $\mathfrak{g}$-valued 1-form $A$, consider the Yang-Mills action \begin{equation} S_{{\rm YM}}(A) = \int_{\mathbb{R}^4} \left|dA + A \wedge A \right|^2\ d\omega \nonumber \end{equation} using the standard metric on $T\mathbb{R}^4$. When we consider the Lie group ${\rm U}(1)$, the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ is isomorphic to $\mathbb{R} \otimes i$, thus $A \wedge A = 0$. For a simple closed loop $C$, we want to make sense of the following path integral, \begin{equation} \frac{1}{Z}\ \int_{A \in \mathcal{A} /\mathcal{G}} \exp \left[ \int_{C} A\right] e^{-\frac{1}{2}\int_{\mathbb{R}^4}|dA|^2\ d\omega}\ DA, \nonumber \end{equation} whereby $DA$ is some Lebesgue type of measure on the space $\mathcal{A} /\mathcal{G}$ containing $\mathfrak{g}$-valued 1-forms modulo gauge transformations, and $Z$ is some partition function. We will construct an Abstract Wiener space for which we can define the above Yang-Mills path integral rigorously, applying renormalization techniques found in lattice gauge theory. We will further show that the Area Law formula does not hold in the abelian Yang-Mills theory.