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+====== Observable ======
+<tabbox Why is it interesting?>
+<tabbox Layman>
+<note tip>
+Explanations in this section should contain no formulas, but instead colloquial things like you would hear them during a coffee break or at a cocktail party.
+</note>
+<tabbox Student>
+<note tip>
+In this section things should be explained by analogy and with pictures and, if necessary, some formulas.
+</note>
+<tabbox Researcher>
+In the path integral approach to gauge theory, observables are gauge invariant functions on the space $\mathcal A$ of a $G$-connections on $E$, where $G$ denotes the structure group and $E$ the fiber bundle. Therefore, an observable $f$ is a function on the space $\mathcal A / \mathcal G$, of connections modulo gauge transformations.
+As a result, vacuum expectation values are no longer defined as integrals with Lebesgue measure $ \mathcal A$, but instead with a Lebesgue measure on $ \mathcal A/ \mathcal G$. We obtain this measure by pushing forward the Lebesgue measure on $ \mathcal A$ by the map  $ \mathcal A \to \mathcal A/ \mathcal G$ that sends each connection to its gauge equivalence class, and then $ A$ denotes a gauge equivalence class of connections in the integral.
+The simplest example of an observable in gauge theory are Wilson loops.
+Take note that this procedure of modding out $\mathcal G$ from $\mathcal A$ is what leads to [[advanced_notions:quantum_field_theory:ghosts|Ghosts]]. To do this properly requires to make use of the [[advanced_tools:gauge_symmetry:brst|BRST]] formalism.
+(Source: Baez, Munian; Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity, page 342)
+<tabbox Examples>
+--> Example1#
+<--
+--> Example2:#
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+<tabbox FAQ>
+<tabbox History>
+</tabbox>

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