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Published February 1, 2002 | public
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Non-abelian Wilson surfaces

Abstract

A definition of non-abelian genus zero open Wilson surfaces is proposed. The ambiguity in surface-ordering is compensated by the gauge transformations.

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Copyright © Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing Limited 2002. Received 12 November 2001, accepted for publication 12 February 2002. Published 13 February 2002. This work was supported by the DOE under grant No. DE-FG03-92ER40701, by the Research Foundation under NSF grant PHY-9722101 and by CRDF Award RP1-2108. Note added. After submitting the original version of this paper to hep-th, the work [5] was brought to our attention. In [5] an equation similar to eq. (2.13) was taken as a definition of Wilson surface. The case considered in [5] corresponds, in our notation, to the C-independent M[C]. The surface-ordering ambiguities are absent in this case. For a list of miscellaneous work on non-abelian 2-form theories, see [6].

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