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Knots as possible excitations of the quantum Yang-Mills fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-08-23 v1

Abstract

A hypothetical picture of massive excitations of 4-dimensional Yang-Mills quantum field theory as closed knotted fat strings is described.

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@article{arxiv.0805.1624,
  title  = {Knots as possible excitations of the quantum Yang-Mills fields},
  author = {L. D. Faddeev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.1624},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Talk on the conference, dedicated to 85 years celebration for Professor C.N.Yang

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