Quark confinement: dual superconductor picture based on a non-abelian Stokes theorem and reformulations of Yang-Mills theory

DOI10.1016/j.physrep.2015.03.002zbMath1357.70029arXiv1409.1599OpenAlexW3100042342MaRDI QIDQ516730

Kei-Ichi Kondo, Toru Shinohara, Akihiro Shibata, Seikou Kato

Publication date: 15 March 2017

Published in: Physics Reports (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1599

zbMATH Keywords

magnetic monopoleWilson loopdual superconductivityquark confinementabelian projectionmaximally abelian gaugenon-abelian Stokes theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15)

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