Merons and instantons in Laplacian Abelian and center gauges in continuum Yang-Mills theory

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00324-0zbMath0977.81082MaRDI QIDQ5935133

Hugo Reinhardt, Torsten Tok

Publication date: 20 June 2001

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

zbMATH Keywords

center-vortex intersection pointsinstanton-antiinstanton pairmonopole loops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30)

Related Items (4)

Intersections of thick center vortices, Dirac eigenmodes and fractional topological charge in SU(2) lattice gauge theory ⋮ Center vortex properties in the Laplace-center gauge of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory ⋮ Abelian and center gauge fixing in continuum Yang-Mills theory for general gauge groups ⋮ Monopole and vortex content of a meron pair

Cites Work

• Resolution of Gauss' law in Yang-Mills theory by gauge-invariant projection: Topology and magnetic monopoles
• Abelian projection on the torus for general gauge groups
• Center projection vortices in continuum Yang-Mills theory
• Magnetic monopoles vs. Hopf defects in the Laplacian (Abelian) gauge
• Center vortices and monopoles without lattice Gribov copies
• Instantons and Gribov copies in the maximally abelian gauge

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