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Abelian Decomposition of Sp(2N) Yang-Mills Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

In the previous paper, we generalized the method of Abelian decomposition to the case of SO(N) Yang-Mills theory. This method that was proposed by Faddeev and Niemi introduces a set of variables for describing the infrared limit of a Yang-Mills theory. Here, we extend the decomposition method further to the general case of four-dimensional Sp(2N) Yang-Mills theory. We find that the Sp(2N) connection decomposes according to irreducible representations of SO(N).

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0009161,
  title  = {Abelian Decomposition of Sp(2N) Yang-Mills Theory},
  author = {Wang-Chang Su},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0009161},
  year   = {2009}
}

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