The Stack of Yang–Mills Fields on Lorentzian Manifolds

Abstract

We provide an abstract definition and an explicit construction of the stack of non-Abelian Yang–Mills fields on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds. We also formulate a stacky version of the Yang–Mills Cauchy problem and show that its well-posedness is equivalent to a whole family of parametrized PDE problems. Our work is based on the homotopy theoretical approach to stacks proposed in Hollander (Isr. J. Math. 163:93–124, 2008), which we shall extend by further constructions that are relevant for our purposes. In particular, we will clarify the concretification of mapping stacks to classifying stacks such as BG con .