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April 16, 20260 citationsOpen Access

The UCM Lattice as a Discrete Principal Fibre Bundle (UCM Paper 52)

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NPNorbert Prebeck

Key Points

  • This research identifies the mathematical structure linking quantum field theory to the UCM lattice as a principal fibre bundle.
  • Verified the five defining axioms of the principal fibre bundle
  • Demonstrated the discrete principal SU(2)-bundle over the lattice base space
  • Investigated curvature using Wilson plaquette and parallel transport with path-ordered link product
  • Established that each site contains gauge-phase freedom
  • Confirmed Schwinger-constructed SU(2) link variables act as the connection
  • Showed convergence of the discrete bundle to the smooth principal G-bundle of Yang-Mills theory

Abstract

Paper 50 of this series established seven structural results that the UCM substrate provides as a "stage" for quantum field theory. This paper identifies the mathematical structure through which QFT docks onto that stage: the principal fibre bundle. We show that the UCM lattice carries a discrete principal SU(2)-bundle over the lattice base space: the fibre at each site is the gauge-phase freedom, and the Schwinger-constructed SU(2) link variables are the connection. All five defining axioms are verified. The curvature is the Wilson plaquette, parallel transport is the path-ordered link product, and gauge transformations are vertical automorphisms. In the continuum limit, the discrete bundle converges to the smooth principal G-bundle of Yang-Mills theory.

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Norbert Prebeck (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e07e3b2f7e8953b7cbf3c9https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19563306
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