Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

Igor Kanatchikov, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Free University of Berlin
Precanonical quantization of the Yang-Mills fields and the mass gap problem

We overview the ideas of the precanonical quantization approach and apply it to the Yang-Mills fields. We show how the approach reduces the mass gap problem to a quantum mechanical spectral problem similar to that for the magnetic Schroedinger operator with a Clifford-valued magnetic field. Reference: hep-th/0301001.