Monopole condensates in SU(N) Yang-Mills Theory
| dc.creator | Periwal, Vipul | |
| dc.date | 1998-08-20 | |
| dc.date | 1998-09-03 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:24:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:24:58Z | |
| dc.description | Faddeev and Niemi have proposed a reformulation of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in terms of new variables, appropriate for describing the theory in its infrared limit based on the intuitive picture of colour confinement due to monopole condensation. I generalize their proposal (with some differences) to SU(N) Yang-Mills theory. The natural variables are $N-1$ mutually commuting traceless $N\times N$ Hermitian matrices, an element of the maximal torus defined by these commuting matrices, $N-1$ Abelian gauge fields for the maximal torus gauge group, and an invariant symmetric two-index tensor on the tangent space of the maximal torus, adding up to the requisite 2$(N^{2}-1)$ physical degrees of freedom. | |
| dc.description | 4 pages, revtex. Interpretation of Faddeev and Niemi's work (hep-th/9807069) corrected | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9808127 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9808127 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/55617 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Monopole condensates in SU(N) Yang-Mills Theory | |
| dc.type | text |