A Faddeev-Niemi solution that does not satisfy Gauss law

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2011)022zbMATH Open1250.81066arXiv1010.1702MaRDI QIDQ715528FDOQ715528

Authors: Jarah Evslin, Simone Giacomelli 

Publication date: 29 October 2012

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Faddeev and Niemi have proposed a reformulation of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in terms of a U(1) gauge theory with 8 off-shell degrees of freedom. We present a solution to Faddeev and Niemi's formulation which does not solve the SU(2) Yang-Mills Gauss constraints. This demonstrates that the proposed reformulation is inequivalent to Yang-Mills, but instead describes Yang-Mills coupled to a particular choice of external charge.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.1702

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zbMATH Keywords

Yang-Mills theorygauge fieldsFaddeev-Niemi construction

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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