  Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be the Lie algebra of a compact Lie group. For a
$\mathfrak{g}$-valued 1-form $A$, consider the Yang-Mills action
\begin{equation} S_{{\rm YM}}(A) = \int_{\mathbb{R}^4} \left|dA + A \wedge A
\right|^2\ d\omega \nonumber \end{equation} using the standard metric on
$T\mathbb{R}^4$. When we consider the Lie group ${\rm U}(1)$, the Lie algebra
$\mathfrak{g}$ is isomorphic to $\mathbb{R} \otimes i$, thus $A \wedge A = 0$.
For some simple closed loop $C$, we want to make sense of the following path
integral, \begin{equation} \frac{1}{Z}\ \int_{A \in \mathcal{A} /\mathcal{G}}
\exp \left[ \int_{C} A\right] e^{-\frac{1}{2}\int_{\mathbb{R}^4}|dA|^2\
d\omega}\ DA, \nonumber \end{equation} whereby $DA$ is some Lebesgue type of
measure on the space of $\mathfrak{g}$-valued 1-forms, modulo gauge
transformations, $\mathcal{A} /\mathcal{G}$, and $Z$ is some partition
function.
  We will construct an Abstract Wiener space for which we can define the above
Yang-Mills path integral rigorously, using renormalization techniques found in
lattice gauge theory. We will further show that the Area Law formula do not
hold in the abelian Yang-Mills theory.
