The BF formalism for QCD and quark confinement

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00216-2zbMath0939.81042arXivhep-th/9605018OpenAlexW2053932007MaRDI QIDQ1358111

Mairizio Martellini, Francesco Fucito, Mauro Zeni

Publication date: 18 June 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9605018

zbMATH Keywords

string tensionexpectation value't Hooft magnetic flux operatorAbelian projection gaugecolor magnetic fieldpure Yang-MillsWilson loop average

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16)

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