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We review some difficulties of the standard picture of confining fields which are viewed usually as `mild', or quasiclassical field configurations. The paradoxes are naturally resolved by recent lattice observations of selftuned…
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The superspace flatness conditions which are equivalent to the field equations of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in ten dimensions have not been useful so far to derive non trivial classical solutions. Recently, modified flatness…
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We describe recent work on the twisted Yangians Y(g,h) which arise as boundary remnants of Yangians Y(g) in 1+1D integrable field theories, bringing out the special role played by the requirement that (g,h) be a symmetric pair.
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