1995/02/03 by M. Asorey, F. Falceto, J. L. Lopez +3 · 18 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge anomaly #Gauge theory #Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory #Introduction to gauge theory #Magnetic monopole #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #Quantum gauge theory #Supersymmetric gauge theory #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(95)00217-9
published in Physics Letters B 349(1-2), 125-130 (Elsevier BV) · 11 pages, revtex, no figures.
arxiv created 1995/02/03 · openalex publication_date 1995/04/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In the presence of Chern-Simons interactions the wave functionals of physical states in 2+1-dimensional gauge theories vanish at anumber of nodal points. We show that those nodes are located at some classical configurations which carry a non-trivial magnetic charge. In abelian gauge theories this fact explains why magnetic monopoles are suppressed by Chern-Simons interactions. In non-abelian theories it suggests a relevant role for nodal gauge field configurations in the confinement mechanism of Yang-Mills theories. We show that the vacuum nodes correspond to the chiral gauge orbits of reducible gauge fields with non-trivial magnetic monopole components.