Three-dimensional Gauge Configurations and Their Properties in {QCD}

Jul, 1986
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 181 (1986) 353-358
  • Published: 1986
Report number:
  • UCLA/86/TEP/26

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
Two important properties are discussed of three-dimensional gauge-field configurations which are expected to arise in QCD, beyond the classical level, as a vacuum condensate. First, these configurations have fermion zero modes normalizable in three dimensions, which are responsible for chiral symmetry breakdown. Second, they form a natural dynamical realization of the semi-infinite branch line which necessarily begins on any localized gauge configuration with fractional topological charge. Other properties of these configurations (e.g., as glueballs) are briefly mentioned.
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SU(2)
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: THREE-DIMENSIONAL
  • FIELD EQUATIONS: SOLITON
  • FERMION
  • CHARGE: TOPOLOGICAL
  • FIELD THEORY: EFFECTIVE LAGRANGIANS
  • SYMMETRY BREAKING: CHIRAL