Potential Topography and Mass Generation
| dc.creator | Kudinov, Maxime | |
| dc.creator | Moreno, Enrique | |
| dc.creator | Orland, Peter | |
| dc.date | 1997-09-03 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:23:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:23:35Z | |
| dc.description | We describe an approach to understanding exponential decay of correlation functions in asymptotically free theories. This approach is systematic; it does not start from any conjectured mechanism or picture. We begin by studying the metric on the space of configurations and the behavior of the potential-energy function on this space. We describe how these ideas fit in the framework of QCD, as discussed earlier by one of us (P.O.). We then consider the 1+1-dimensional O(2) and O(3) nonlinear sigma models and show that no gap exists in the former at weak coupling. In the O(3) model a new kind of strong/weak-coupling duality is realized. We briefly outline our proposals for understanding the spectrum. | |
| dc.description | 15 pages, latex2e, three figures, uses plenum.sty Invited talk by P. Orland at the NATO Advanced Workshop, ``New Developments in Quantum Field Theory", Zakopane, Poland, June 14-19, 1997, proceedings to be published by Plenum Press | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9709031 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9709031 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/55086 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Potential Topography and Mass Generation | |
| dc.type | text |