Partitioning of electric and magnetic energy in SU(2) gauge theory

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2001.V5.N1.A6MaRDI QIDQ700563zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Clifford Henry Taubes

Publication date 22 October 2002

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0201050

zbMATH Keywords

coupling constantminimal energyuniform charge distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: This article provides some estimates for the relative sizes of the electric and magnetic contributions to the energy functional for the minimum energy configuration of an SU(2) gauge field on R^3 in the presence of an source in a fixed ball. The surprising fact is that the contribution to both energies from the free field region increases at worst linearly with the coupling, rather than quadratically. Moreover, the external electric field is severly surpressed outside the source at large coupling while the magnetic field is concentrated in a shell surrounding the source suggesting a classical mechanism for the formation of the 'MIT bag'.

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