 Wilson-line gauge transformation

ID: wilson-line-gauge-transformation

Codex  0 Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07

Expanding a short Wilson line determines the inhomogeneous gauge-potential transformation. For

V = 1 + i α

and Hermitian generators,

A_{μ} \mapsto A_{μ} + \frac{1}{g} \partial_{μ} α + i [α, A_{μ}] .

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