ACTA MATHEMATICA UNIVERSITATIS COMENIANAE

Vol. 66,   2   (1997)
pp.   221-228

NO SLICES ON THE SPACE OF GENERALIZED CONNECTIONS
P. W. MICHOR and H. SCHICHL


Abstract.  On a fiber bundle without structure group the action of the gauge group (the group of all fiber respecting diffeomorphisms) on the space of (generalized) connections is shown to admit no slices.

AMS subject classification.  58D27
Keywords.  Moduli spaces, slice, gauge group

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