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Color Reflection Invariance and Monopole Condensation in QCD

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v3

Abstract

We review the quantum instability of the Savvidy-Nielsen-Olesen (SNO) vacuum of the one-loop effective action of SU(2) QCD, and point out a critical defect in the calculation of the functional determinant of the gluon loop in the SNO effective action. We prove that the gauge invariance, in particular the color reflection invariance, exclude the unstable tachyonic modes from the gluon loop integral. This guarantees the stability of the magnetic condensation in QCD.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0301013,
  title  = {Color Reflection Invariance and Monopole Condensation in QCD},
  author = {Y. M. Cho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0301013},
  year   = {2009}
}

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28 pages, 3 figures, JHEP style