The stability of vacua in two-dimensional gauge theory

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00163-0zbMath0977.81066arXivhep-th/0010289MaRDI QIDQ5933129

Victor G. Kac, Jan Troost

Publication date: 5 June 2001

Published in: Physics Letters. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0010289

zbMATH Keywords

heavy matter pair productionsimply connected gauge groupWilson line

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

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