2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/94317This paper explains some of the ideas behind a prior joint work of the author with Bruce Driver on the canonical quantization of Yang-Mills theory on a spacetime cylinder. The idea is that the generalized Segal-Bargmann transform for a compact group can be obtained from the ordinary Segal-Bargmann transform by imposing gauge symmetry.Quantum PhysicsHigh Energy Physics - TheoryMathematical PhysicsCoherent states, Yang-Mills theory, and reductiontext