Affiliation:
1. The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, C.I.T. Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600113, India
Abstract
Motivated by the computation of loop space quantum mechanics as indicated in [14], here we seek a better understanding of the tubular geometry of loop space [Formula: see text] corresponding to a Riemannian manifold [Formula: see text] around the submanifold of vanishing loops. Our approach is to first compute the tubular metric of [Formula: see text] around the diagonal submanifold, where [Formula: see text] is the Cartesian product of [Formula: see text] copies of [Formula: see text] with a cyclic ordering. This gives an infinite sequence of tubular metrics such that the one relevant to [Formula: see text] can be obtained by taking the limit [Formula: see text]. Such metrics are computed by adopting an indirect method where the general tubular expansion theorem of [21] is crucially used. We discuss how the complete reparametrization isometry of loop space arises in the large-[Formula: see text] limit and verify that the corresponding Killing equation is satisfied to all orders in tubular expansion. These tubular metrics can alternatively be interpreted as some natural Riemannian metrics on certain bundles of tangent spaces of [Formula: see text] which, for [Formula: see text], is the tangent bundle [Formula: see text].
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Subject
Mathematical Physics,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics