Center vortices atN > 4 colors

✍ Scribed by Jeff Greensite; Sˇtefan Olejni´k

• Book ID: 104354394
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 260 KB
• Volume: 119
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(03)01663-3

✦ Synopsis

We discuss two issues related to the physics of center vortices in pure SU(N) lattice gauge theory at large N: 1. Center vortices are stable classical solutions of the Wilson action, as well as of a wide class of improved lattice actions. for any N > 4. 2. The natural scaling of k-string tensions at large N, in the vortex picture of confinement. is o(k) = Xo( I ) This is the common large N limit of Casimir and Sine Law scaling. The crucial feature for explainin, 0 this behavior is the existence of center monopoles.