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Gauge Theories in a Bag

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v2

Abstract

We investigate multi-flavour gauge theories confined in d\es2nd\es 2n-dimensional Euclidean bags. The boundary conditions for the 'quarks' break the axial flavour symmetry and depend on a parameter θ\theta. We determine the θ\theta-dependence of the fermionic correlators and determinants and find that a CPCP-breaking θ\theta-term is generated dynamically. As an application we calculate the chiral condensate in multi-flavour QED2QED_2 and the abelian projection of QCD2QCD_2. In the second model a condensate is generated in the limit where the number of colours, NcN_c, tends to infinity. We prove that the condensate in QCD2QCD_2 decreases with increasing bag radius RR at least as R1/NcNf\sim R^{-1/N_cN_f}. Finally we determine the correlators of mesonic currents in QCD2QCD_2.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9412018,
  title  = {Gauge Theories in a Bag},
  author = {A. Wipf and S. Duerr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9412018},
  year   = {2009}
}

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40 pages, LATEX-file