Topological charge of center vortices
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H. Reinhardt
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Article
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2003
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The topological charge of center vortices is discussed in terms of the self-intersection number of the closed vortex surfaces in 4-dimensional Euclidian space-time and in terms of the temporal changes of the writhing number of the time-dependent vortex loops in 3-dimensional space