Product Integral Formalism and Non-Abelian Stokes Theorem

Abstract

We make use of the properties of product integrals to obtain a surface product integral representation for the Wilson loop operator. The result can be interpreted as the non-abelian version of Stokes' theorem.

Latex; condensed version of hep-th/9903221, to appear in Jour. Math. Phys

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