In Topological Solitons by Nicholas Manton where he considers "compact Lie groups" to be the gauge groups for generalizing gauge theoretic concepts. But, he does not mention why that condition is required
The killing is non-degenerate as per the requirement of the kinetic terms.Kinetic part of the Yang Mills action $$ \int Tr({\bf{F^2}}) dV$$ to be positive definite. I do think there is relevancy of the compactness of the lie group as apposed to the views in Why is the Yang-Mills gauge group assumed compact and semi-simple?
I've found this result. http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/notes9.pdf
For compact groups the Killing form will be negative definite
I'm not able to find any such result for a Lie group. Can anyone tell me how this and the above result are result and its implementation in gauge theory?
Thanks, Sai
