COHERENT STATES AND THE QUANTIZATION OF (1+1)-DIMENSIONAL YANG–MILLS THEORY
COHERENT STATES AND THE QUANTIZATION OF (1+1)-DIMENSIONAL YANG–MILLS THEORY
This paper discusses the canonical quantization of (1+1)-dimensional Yang–Mills theory on a spacetime cylinder from the point of view of coherent states, or equivalently, the Segal–Bargmann transform. Before gauge symmetry is imposed, the coherent states are simply ordinary coherent states labeled by points in an infinite-dimensional linear phase space. Gauge …