Large Gauge Transformations and Magnetic Vortices in Axial Gauge QCD_{3+1}
Abstract
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It is shown that in the modified axial gauge version of canonically quantized QCD$_{3+1}$ on a torus only nongeneric gauge field configurations allow for large gauge transformations. For the other configurations, the gauge is fixed completely. Such configurations carry nonzero total magnetic abelian fluxes, correspond to magnetic vortices parallel to the coordinate axes and are incorporated using both singular gauge fields and a change of boundary conditions.
LaTeX, 14 pages, to be published in the proceedings of the "Workshop on Nonperturbative Approaches to QCD" at the ECT, Trento; no special macros
LaTeX, 14 pages, to be published in the proceedings of the "Workshop on Nonperturbative Approaches to QCD" at the ECT, Trento; no special macros