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Sufficient condition for confinement of static quarks by a vortex condensation mechanism

✍ Scribed by G. Mack; V.B. Petkova

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1980
Tongue: English
Weight: 872 KB
Volume: 125
Category: Article
ISSN: 0003-4916
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4916(80)90121-9

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✦ Synopsis

We derive a sufficient condition for confinement of static quarks by a vortex condensation mechanism. It admits vortices that are thick at all times at the cost of constraining them to a finite volume rli whose complement is not simply connected. The confining potential V(L) is estimated in terms of the change of free energy of a system enclosed in (1, which is induced by a change in vorticity (= singular gauge transformation applied to boundary conditions on LX'& .) For Abelian gauge theories in 3 dimensions the confining Coulomb potential is reproduced as a lower bound.