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Abstract We define a natural state space and Markov process associated to the stochastic Yang–Mills heat flow in two dimensions. To accomplish this we first introduce a space of distributional connections for which holonomies along sufficiently regular curves (Wilson loop observables) and the action of an associated group of gauge transformations are both well-defined and satisfy good continuity properties. The desired state space is obtained as the corresponding space of orbits under this group action and is shown to be a Polish space when equipped with a natural Hausdorff metric. To construct the Markov process we show that the stochastic Yang–Mills heat flow takes values in our space of connections and use the “DeTurck trick” of introducing a time dependent gauge transformation to show invariance, in law, of the solution under gauge transformations. Our main tool for solving for the Yang–Mills heat flow is the theory of regularity structures and along the way we also develop a “basis-free” framework for applying the theory of regularity structures in the context of vector-valued noise – this provides a conceptual framework for interpreting several previous constructions and we expect this framework to be of independent interest.
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The Yang-Mills heat flow and the caloric gauge
This is the first part of the four-paper sequence, which establishes the Threshold Conjecture and the Soliton Bubbling vs. Scattering Dichotomy for the energy critical hyperbolic Yang-Mills equation in the (4 + 1)-dimensional Minkowski space-time. The primary subject of this paper, however, is another PDE, namely the energy critical Yang-Mills heat flow on the 4-dimensional Euclidean space. Our first goal is to establish sharp criteria for global existence and asymptotic convergence to a flat connection for this system in H1, including the Dichotomy Theorem (i.e., either the above properties hold or a harmonic Yang-Mills connection bubbles off) and the Threshold Theorem (i.e., if the initial energy is less than twice that of the ground state, then the above properties hold). Our second goal is to use the Yang-Mills heat flow in order to define the caloric gauge, which will play a major role in the analysis of the hyperbolic Yang-Mills equation in the subsequent papers.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1945615
- PAR ID:
- 10432590
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Asterisque
- Volume:
- 436
- ISSN:
- 2492-5926
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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