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Color Confinement in QCD due to Topological Defects

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-12-13 v1

Abstract

We outline a derivation of area law of the Wilson loop in SU(N) Yang-Mills theory in the maximal Abelian gauge. This is based on a new version of non-Abelian Stokes theorem and the novel reformulation of the Yang-Mills theory. Abelian dominance and monopole dominance of the string tension in SU(N) QCD are immediate consequences of this derivation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9909208,
  title  = {Color Confinement in QCD due to Topological Defects},
  author = {Kei-Ichi Kondo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9909208},
  year   = {2010}
}

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7 pages, no figures, Invited talk presented at New Directions in Quantum Chromodynamics, June 21-25, 1999, Kyungju, Korea

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