Reformulating SU(N) Yang-Mills Theory Based on Change of Variables

DOI10.1143/PTP.120.1zbMATH Open1158.81346arXiv0803.0176OpenAlexW2106310520MaRDI QIDQ3597117FDOQ3597117

Authors: Toru Shinohara, T. Murakami, Kei Kondo 

Publication date: 9 February 2009

Published in: Progress of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a new version of SU(N) Yang-Mills theory reformulated in terms of new field variables which are obtained by a nonlinear change of variables from the original Yang-Mills gauge field. The reformulated Yang-Mills theory enables us to study the low-energy dynamics by explicitly extracting the topological degrees of freedom such as magnetic monopoles and vortices to clarify the mechanism for quark confinement. The dual superconductivity in Yang-Mills theory is understood in a gauge-invariant manner, as demonstrated recently by a non-Abelian Stokes theorem for the Wilson loop operator, although the basic idea of this reformulation is based on the Cho-Faddeev-Niemi decomposition of the gauge potential.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0176

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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