Surface operators and magnetic degrees of freedom in Yang-Mills theories

Details Surface operators and magnetic degrees of freedom in Yang-Mills theories Surface operators and magnetic degrees of freedom in Yang-Mills theories

2008-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/0806.2938v2

Phys.Atom.Nucl.73:711-720,2010

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

Improved version. In honor of L. Okun for his 80th birthday. To appear in Yadernaya Fizika

Scientific paper

10.1134/S1063778810040174

Magnetic degrees of freedom are manifested through violations of the Bianchi identities and associated with singular fields. Moreover, these singularities should not induce color non-conservation. We argue that the resolution of the constraint is that the singular fields, or defects are Abelian in nature. Recently proposed surface operators seem to represent a general solution to this constraint and can serve as a prototype of magnetic degrees of freedom. Some basic lattice observations, such as the Abelian dominance of the confining fields, are explained then as consequences of the original non-Abelian invariance.

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