Two dimensional gases of weight charges and SU(N) fermino theories

✍ Scribed by Z.F Ezawa; A Iwazaki

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 909 KB
• Volume: 141
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-4916
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-4916(82)90276-7

✦ Synopsis

We analyze two dimensional gases composed of particles interacting via a Coulomb or Yakawa potential through their "non-Abelian" charges. These charges are taken to be elementary weight or root vectors of SU(N). The grand partition function of these gases is shown to be equivalent to the generating functional of sine-Gordon models with weight vectors and hence to that of SU(N) fermion models. The fermion field creates or annihilates topological solitons which have elementary weight vectors as topological quantum numbers. Then, we discuss the confinement of fermions in the SU(N) Higgs models, where instantons (ZN vortices) constitute a Yukawa gas of weight charges. We prove that fermions are confirmed by the effects of instantons in the SU(N) Higgs models in contrast with the Abelian Higgs model.