English

Laplacian Abelian Projection

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

A new partial gauge fixing condition for the abelian projection is introduced. It is based on the lowest-lying eigenvector of a covariant Laplacian operator. This gauge is smooth and free of lattice Gribov copies. These properties are important for an unambiguous computation of the abelian projected gauge field configuration.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9608041,
  title  = {Laplacian Abelian Projection},
  author = {A. J. van der Sijs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9608041},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Three pages, latex, figures included. Talk presented at LATTICE96(topology)

R2 v1 2026-07-22T13:21:06.826Z