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1-form symmetry versus large N QCD

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-03-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We show that large N QCD does not have an emergent ZN\mathbb{Z}_N 1-form symmetry. Our results suggest that a symmetry-based understanding of (approximate) confinement in QCD would require some further generalization of the notion of generalized global symmetries.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2209.00027,
  title  = {1-form symmetry versus large N QCD},
  author = {Aleksey Cherman and Theodore Jacobson and Maria Neuzil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.00027},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

38 pages, 10 figures. v2: extra reference, a couple of clarifications

R2 v1 2026-06-28T00:30:40.156Z