Vacuum structure of two-dimensional gauge theories for arbitrary Lie groups

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00536-1MaRDI QIDQ1371629zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lori D. Paniak, G. W. Semenoff, A. R. Zhitnitsky

Publication date 29 October 1997

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9701270

zbMATH Keywords

boundary conditionsgroup theoryWilson loop2D Yang Mills theoriescompact Lie symmetry groupstring tensionst-Hooft disorder operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Lie groups (22E99)

Abstract: Using the well established machinery of Wilson loop calculations we investigate the multiple vacua of two dimensional Yang-Mills theories with infinitely massive adjoint matter. In particular, via group theoretical techniques we calculate string tensions between charges and find the number of vacua for each compact Lie symmetry group. The counting of vacua is in agreement with the standard classification based on the topology of the effective gauge group $p{i}_1(G/Z)$ when one considers arbitrary numbers of adjoint charges in the system. For systems with limited numbers of charges we find additional "meta-stable" vacuum states. Finally we discuss t'Hooft's disorder operators in this setting as number operators for the multiple vacua.

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