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Hessel B. Posthuma

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arXiv2025

Global Gauge Symmetries and Spatial Asymptotic Boundary Conditions in Yang-Mills Theory

In Yang-Mills theory on a Euclidean Cauchy surface, the physical gauge group is often taken to be $\mathcal{G}^I/\mathcal{G}^\infty_0$, where $\mathcal{G}^I$ consists of boundary-preserving gauge transformations asymptoting to a constant, and $\mathcal{G}^\infty_0$ consists of transformations generated by the Gauss law constraint. We rigorously derive this physical gauge group for both Abelian and non-Abelian theories. A key result is that restricting to $\mathcal{G}^I$ follows from the structure of the instantaneous state space on which the instantaneous Lagrangian is defined. We extend our analysis to Yang-Mills-Higgs theory, showing that boundary conditions and the physical gauge group differ between the unbroken and broken phases.

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arXiv2020

On the Hochschild homology of convolution algebras of proper Lie groupoids

We study the Hochschild homology of the convolution algebra of a proper Lie groupoid by introducing a convolution sheaf over the space of orbits. We develop a localization result for the associated Hochschild homology sheaf, and prove that the Hochschild homology sheaf at each stalk is quasi-isomorphic to the stalk at the origin of the Hochschild homology of the convolution algebra of its linearization, which is the transformation groupoid of a linear action of a compact isotropy group on a vector space. We then explain Brylinski's ansatz to compute the Hochschild homology of the transformation groupoid of a compact group action on a manifold. We verify Brylinski's conjecture for the case of smooth circle actions that the Hochschild homology is given by basic relative forms on the associated inertia space.

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arXiv2017

Resolutions of proper Riemannian Lie groupoids

In this paper we prove that every proper Lie groupoid admits a desingularization to a regular proper Lie groupoid. When equipped with a Riemannian metric, we show that it admits a desingularization to a regular Riemannian proper Lie groupoid, arbitrarily close to the original one in the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between the quotient spaces. We construct the desingularization via a successive blow-up construction on a proper Lie groupoid. We also prove that our construction of the desingularization is invariant under Morita equivalence of groupoids, showing that it is a desingularization of the underlying differentiable stack.

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