2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/55625I propose to reformulate the gauge field theory as the perturbative deformation of a novel topological quantum field theory. It is shown that this reformulation leads to quark confinement in QCD$_4$. Similarly, the fractional charge confinement is also derived in the strong coupling phase of QED$_4$. As a confinement criterion, we use the area decay of the expectation value of the Wilson loop.4 pages, Latex, Talk given at the 3rd Intern. conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, 7-12 June 1998, Jefferson Lab., Newport News, VA, USAHigh Energy Physics - TheoryHigh Energy Physics - LatticeHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyMathematical PhysicsNuclear Theorytext