Adjoint bundle

Adjoint bundle

In mathematics, an adjoint bundle is a vector bundle naturally associated to any principal bundle. The fibers of the adjoint bundle carry a Lie algebra structure making the adjoint bundle into an algebra bundle. Adjoint bundles has important applications in the theory of connections as well as in gauge theory

Formal definition

Let "G" be a Lie group with Lie algebra mathfrak g, and let "P" be a principal "G"-bundle over a smooth manifold "M". Let:mathrm{Ad}: G omathrm{Aut}(mathfrak g)submathrm{GL}(mathfrak g)be the adjoint representation of "G". The adjoint bundle of "P" is the associated bundle:mathrm{Ad}_P = P imes_{mathrm{Admathfrak gThe adjoint bundle is also commonly denoted by mathfrak g_P. Explicitly, elements of the adjoint bundle are equivalence classes of pairs ["p", "x"] for "p" ∈ "P" and "x" ∈ mathfrak g such that: [pcdot g,x] = [p,mathrm{Ad}_g(x)] for all "g" ∈ "G". Since the structure group of the adjoint bundle consists of Lie algebra automorphisms, the fibers naturally carry a Lie algebra structure making the adjoint bundle into a bundle of Lie algebras over "M".

Properties

Differential forms on "M" with values in Ad"P" are in one-to-one corresponding with horizontal, "G"-equivariant Lie algebra-valued forms on "P". A prime example is the curvature of any connection on "P" which may be regarded as a 2-form on "M" with values in Ad"P".

The space of sections of the adjoint bundle is naturally an (infinite-dimensional) Lie algebra. It may be regarded as the Lie algebra of the infinite-dimensional Lie group of gauge transformations of "P" which can be thought of as sections of the bundle "P" ×Ψ "G" where Ψ is the action of "G" on itself by conjugation.


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