Magnetic monopoles and the topology of g
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H. Reinhardt
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Article
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1999
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Lattice calculations performed in Abelian gauges give strong evidence that confinement is realized as a dual Meissner effect, implying that the Yang-Mills vacuum consists of a condensate of magnetic monopoles. We show in Polyakov gauge how the Pontrjagin index of the gauge field is related to the ma