2002/05/06 by John D. Stack, Stack, John D., William W. Tucker +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #hep-lat
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/0205006
8 pages, latex, based on a presentation by J. Stack at NATO Advanced Workshop on Confinement and Topology, Jan 2002, Stara Lesna, Slovakia, replaced version has improved Sec.(4)
arxiv created 2002/05/11 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
The general problem of obtaining reliable results from gauge-fixing and projection is discussed. It is shown that the usual form of the maximal abelian gauge gives poor results for the string tension in SU(3) lattice gauge theory. A generalized form is suggested. Evidence is presented that monopoles in SU(3) are associated with SU(2) subgroups, and that P-vortices pass through monopoles, similar to what happens in SU(2).