Magnetic monopoles and center vortices as gauge-invariant topological defects simultaneously responsible for confinement

dc.creatorKondo, Kei-Ichi
dc.date2008-02-26
dc.date2008-06-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:40:30Z
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dc.descriptionWe give a gauge-invariant definition of the vortex surface in SU(N) Yang-Mills theory without using the gauge fixing procedure. In this construction, gauge-invariant magnetic monopoles with fractional magnetic charges emerge in the boundary of the non-oriented vortex surface such that the asymptotic string tension reproduces the correct $N$-ality dependence. We show that gauge-invariant magnetic monopoles and vortices are simultaneously responsible for quark confinement in four dimensional spacetime based on the Wilson criterion. These results are extracted from a non-Abelian Stokes theorem derived in the previous paper.
dc.description20 (Cover+19) pages, 3 figures; version to be published in J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3829
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3829
dc.identifierJ.Phys.G35:085001,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0954-3899/35/8/085001
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/200274
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleMagnetic monopoles and center vortices as gauge-invariant topological defects simultaneously responsible for confinement
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