A FORMULATION OF THE YANG–MILLS THEORY AS A DEFORMATION OF A TOPOLOGICAL FIELD THEORY BASED ON THE BACKGROUND FIELD METHOD AND QUARK CONFINEMENT PROBLEM

DOI10.1142/S0217751X0100310XzbMath1041.81083arXivhep-th/9904045OpenAlexW3123754744MaRDI QIDQ2716690

Kei-Ichi Kondo

Publication date: 23 August 2001

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9904045

zbMATH Keywords

quantum chromodynamicsbackground field methodmagnetic monopoletopological solitontopological quantum field theoryinstanton calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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