Yang Mills Fields from Isometries

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In summary, the author is trying to solve a problem involving the divergence of Killing vectors, but gets stuck and needs help.
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I am going through the book "Symmetries in Fundamental Physics" by Kurt Sundermeyer and in his part on deriving Yang-Mills theories from a Kaluza-Klein perspective I seem to be stuck on a small step in the derivation.

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He expands the metric in a typical Kaluza-Klein-like style
## \begin{cases}
&\hat{g}^{0}_{\mu \nu} (x) = W(\phi) g_{\mu \nu} + f(\phi)h_{\iota \kappa} \mathcal{B}^{\iota}_{\mu}\mathcal{B}^{\kappa}_{\nu}\\
&\hat{g}^{0}_{\mu \kappa} (x) = f(\phi) h_{\iota \kappa}\mathcal{B}^{\iota}_{\mu}\\
&\hat{g}^{0}_{\iota \kappa} (x) = f(\phi)h_{\iota \kappa}
\end{cases}##
and derives from it that under diffeomorphism, the B-field should transform as
##\mathcal{B}'^{\iota}_{\mu} = \frac{\partial x^{\nu}}{\partial x'^{\mu}}\left( \frac{\partial \theta'^{\iota}}{\partial \theta^{\kappa}} \mathcal{B}^{\kappa}_{\nu} - \frac{\partial \theta'^{\iota}}{\partial x^{\nu}} \right).##
Now, by considering the isometries infinitesimally
##\theta'^{\iota} = \theta^{\iota} + \epsilon^a(x)K^{\iota}_a(\theta)##
and expanding the B-fields in terms of the Killing vectors
##\mathcal{B}^{\iota}_{\mu} = g K^{\iota}_{a} \mathcal{A}^{a}_{\mu}##
he gets
##g K^{\iota}_{d} \mathcal{A}^{d}_{\mu} = (\delta^{\iota}_{\kappa} + \epsilon^a \partial_{\kappa}K^{\iota}_a) g K^{\kappa}_{b} \mathcal{A}^{b}_{\mu} - K^{\iota}_{a}\partial_{\mu}\epsilon^a.##

This i can follow, but now he claims that via
##K^{\kappa}_{a} \partial_{\kappa} K^{\iota}_{b} - K^{\kappa}_{b} \partial_{\kappa} K^{\iota}_{a} = f_{abc} K^{\iota}_{c}##
he can get
##\mathcal{A}'^{a}_{\mu} = \mathcal{A}^{a}_{\mu} + \frac{1}{g}f^{bca}\mathcal{A}^b_{\mu}\epsilon^c - \frac{1}{g} \partial_{\mu}\epsilon^a.##

3. The attempt at a solution
By just plugging in the relation I can get as far as
##\mathcal{A}'^{a}_{\mu} = \mathcal{A}^{a}_{\mu} + f^{bca}\mathcal{A}^b_{\mu}\epsilon^c + \epsilon^c(K^{\iota}_a)^{-1}K^{\kappa}_{c}(\partial_{\kappa} K^{\iota}_b)\mathcal{A}^b_{\mu} - \frac{1}{g} \partial_{\mu}\epsilon^a##
but I don't see how the extra term cancels or how the ##\frac{1}{g}## appears in the second term.
 
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BVM said:
By just plugging in the relation I can get as far as
##\mathcal{A}'^{a}_{\mu} = \mathcal{A}^{a}_{\mu} + f^{bca}\mathcal{A}^b_{\mu}\epsilon^c + \epsilon^c(K^{\iota}_a)^{-1}K^{\kappa}_{c}(\partial_{\kappa} K^{\iota}_b)\mathcal{A}^b_{\mu} - \frac{1}{g} \partial_{\mu}\epsilon^a##
but I don't see how the extra term cancels or how the ##\frac{1}{g}## appears in the second term.

Performing the contraction, we find

$$ \epsilon^c(K^{\iota}_a)^{-1}K^{\kappa}_{c}(\partial_{\kappa} K^{\iota}_b)\mathcal{A}^b_{\mu} = \epsilon^a(\partial_{\kappa} K^{\kappa}_b)\mathcal{A}^b_{\mu},$$

but the divergence of a Killing vector vanishes, so this is zero.
 
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Oh my god how did I miss this.

Thanks a lot!
 

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What are Yang Mills fields?

Yang Mills fields are a type of quantum field theory that describes the interactions between elementary particles, specifically those that have a spin of 1 or higher. They are named after physicists Chen Ning Yang and Robert Mills, who first proposed this theory in the 1950s.

What are isometries in relation to Yang Mills fields?

Isometries are mathematical transformations that preserve the distance between points. In the context of Yang Mills fields, isometries refer to the symmetries or invariances of the theory, which are essential for understanding its behavior and predicting the interactions between particles.

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The connection between Yang Mills fields and isometries is important because it allows for the formulation of a gauge theory, which is a type of theory that describes the fundamental forces of nature. In this case, isometries are used to construct the gauge symmetry group, which is a fundamental concept in Yang Mills theory.

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