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Laplacian Center Vortices

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

I present a unified picture of center vortices and Abelian monopoles. Both appear as local gauge ambiguities in the Laplacian Center Gauge. This gauge is constructed for a general SU(N) theory. Numerical evidence is presented, for SU(2) and SU(3), that the projected ZNZ_N theory confines with a string tension similar to the non-Abelian one.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0008013,
  title  = {Laplacian Center Vortices},
  author = {Ph. de Forcrand and M. Pepe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0008013},
  year   = {2007}
}

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9 pages, 5 figures; talk presented at "Confinement 2000", Osaka, March 2000

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