Abelian projection on the torus for general gauge groups

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00146-7zbMATH Open0944.81018arXivhep-th/9809209OpenAlexW3105548928WikidataQ125728607 ScholiaQ125728607MaRDI QIDQ1572091FDOQ1572091

Authors: N. Delaunay 

Publication date: 12 July 2000

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

Abstract: We consider Yang-Mills theories with general gauge groups $G$ and twists on the four torus. We find consistent boundary conditions for gauge fields in all instanton sectors. An extended Abelian projection with respect to the Polyakov loop operator is presented, where $A_0$ is independent of time and in the Cartan subalgebra. Fundamental domains for the gauge fixed $A_0$ are constructed for arbitrary gauge groups. In the sectors with non-vanishing instanton number such gauge fixings are necessarily singular. The singularities can be restricted to Dirac strings joining magnetically charged defects. The magnetic charges of these monopoles take their values in the co-root lattice of the gauge group. We relate the magnetic charges of the defects and the windings of suitable Higgs fields about these defects to the instanton number.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9809209

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zbMATH Keywords

boundary conditionsYang-Mills theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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