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 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