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A Large Distance Expansion for Quantum Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Using analyticity of the vacuum wave-functional under complex scalings, the vacuum of a quantum field theory may be reconstructed from a derivative expansion valid for slowly varying fields. This enables the eigenvalue problem for the Hamiltonian to be reduced to algebraic equations. Applied to Yang-Mills theory this expansion leads to a confining force between quarks.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9608097,
  title  = {A Large Distance Expansion for Quantum Field Theory},
  author = {Paul Mansfield},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9608097},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

5 pages, latex, invited talk at the Second International Sakharov Conference on Physics, May 1996

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