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Inherent color symmetry of quantum Yang-Mills theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-05-01 v4

Abstract

We present the basic non-perturbative structure of the space of classical dynamical solutions and corresponding one particle quantum states in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory. It has been demonstrated that the Weyl group of su(3) algebra plays an important role in constructing non-perturbative solutions and leads to profound changes in the structure of the classical and quantum Yang-Mills theory. We show that the Weyl group as a non-trivial color subgroup of SU(3) admits singlet irreducible representations on a space of classical dynamical solutions which lead to strict concepts of one particle quantum states for gluons and quarks. The Yang-Mills theory is a non-linear theory and, in general, it is not possible to construct a Hilbert space of classical solutions and quantum states as a linear vector space, so, usually, a perturbative approach is applied. We propose a non-perturbative approach based on Weyl symmetric solutions to full non-linear equations of motion and construct a full space of dynamical solutions representing an infinite but countable solution space classified by a finite set of integer numbers. It has been proved that the Weyl singlet structure of classical solutions provides the existence of a stable non-degenerate vacuum which serves as a main precondition of the color confinement phenomenon. Some physical implications in quantum chromodynamics are considered.

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@article{arxiv.2009.13938,
  title  = {Inherent color symmetry of quantum Yang-Mills theory},
  author = {Dmitriy G. Pak and Rong-Gen Cai and Takuya Tsukioka and Pengming Zhang and Yu-Feng Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.13938},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

9 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, essentially revised version, new results on effective action and quark confinement are added