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Some views on monopoles and confinement

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-11-03 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

Aspects of the monopole condensation picture of confinement are discussed. First, the nature of the monopole singularities in the abelian projection approach is analysed. Their apparent gauge dependence is shown to have a natural interpretation in terms of 't~Hooft-Polyakov-like monopoles in euclidean SU(2) gauge theory. Next, the results and predictions of a realization of confinement through condensation of such monopoles are summarized and compared with numerical data.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9505019,
  title  = {Some views on monopoles and confinement},
  author = {A. J. van der Sijs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9505019},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Talk at the International RCNP Workshop on COLOR CONFINEMENT AND HADRONS --- CONFINEMENT 95 (March 22--24, 1995, RCNP Osaka, Japan), to appear in the proceedings. 9 pages latex, 1 PostScript figure in uufiles format, uses epsf.tex

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