Laplacian Center Vortices

2000/08/14 by Ph. de Forcrand, de Forcrand, Ph., Michele Pepe +2
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Superconducting Materials and Applications #hep-lat

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/0008013

9 pages, 5 figures; talk presented at "Confinement 2000", Osaka, March 2000

arxiv created 2000/08/14 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

I present a unified picture of center vortices and Abelian monopoles. Both appear as local gauge ambiguities in the Laplacian Center Gauge. This gauge is constructed for a general SU(N) theory. Numerical evidence is presented, for SU(2) and SU(3), that the projected Z_N theory confines with a string tension similar to the non-Abelian one.

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