Gauge singularities in the SU(2) vacuum on the lattice

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.05.014zbMATH Open1194.81175arXivhep-lat/0412010OpenAlexW1992312525MaRDI QIDQ875892FDOQ875892

F. Gutbrod

Publication date: 16 April 2007

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

Abstract: SU(2) configurations, which have been generated by the Wilson action, are transformed to a Landau gauge and smoothed by Fourier filtering. This leads to sharp peaks in the field strengths and in related quantities. These spikes are caused by gauge singularities. Their density is determined as 1.5 spikes per fm**4, and it scales with the string tension. The number of spikes vanishes when approaching the deconfinement regions. Correlations of spikes with Gribov copies, with cooled action maxima and with the gluon propagator are studied.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0412010

zbMATH Keywords

latticeinstantonsLandau gaugesingularitiesSU(2)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

Cites Work

• Some remarks on the Gribov ambiguity
• Problems on lattice gauge fixing
• Center vortices and monopoles without lattice Gribov copies

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