Knot topology of classical QCD vacuum

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2006.11.040zbMATH Open1248.81264arXivhep-th/0409246OpenAlexW1556621521MaRDI QIDQ712931FDOQ712931

Authors: D. Kharzeev 

Publication date: 18 October 2012

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

Abstract: We show that one can express the knot equation of Skyrme theory completely in terms of the vacuum potential of SU(2) QCD, in such a way that the equation is viewed as a generalized Lorentz gauge condition which selects one vacuum for each class of topologically equivalent vacua. From this we show that there are three ways to describe the QCD vacuum (and thus the knot), by a non-linear sigma field, a complex vector field, or by an Abelian gauge potential. This tells that the QCD vacuum can be classified by an Abelian gauge potential with an Abelian Chern-Simon index.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0409246

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zbMATH Keywords

classification of QCD vacuum by abelian Chern-Simon indexknot topology of QCD vacuumQCD vacuum as knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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