Wilson Loop on a Light-Cone Cylinder
| dc.creator | Pinsky, Stephen | |
| dc.date | 1997-02-11 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:23:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:23:06Z | |
| dc.description | QCD without matter and quantized on a light-cone spatial cylinder is considered. For the gauge group SU(N) the theory has N-1 quantum mechanical degrees of freedom, which describe the color fux that circulates around the the spatial cylinder. In 1+1 dimensions this problem can be solved analytically. I use the solution for SU(2) to compute the Wilson loop phase on the surface of the cylinder and find that it is equal to g^2 area/4. This result is different from the well known result for flat space. I argue that for SU(N) the Wilson loop phase for a contour on a light-cone spatial cylinder is g^2(area) (N-1)/4. The underlying reason for this result is that only the N-1 dimensional Cartan subgroup of SU(N) is dynamical in this problem. | |
| dc.description | 7 pages, RevTex | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702091 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702091 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/54897 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Wilson Loop on a Light-Cone Cylinder | |
| dc.type | text |