Partially dual variables in SU(2) Yang-Mills theory

Jul, 1998
4 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 82 (1999) 1624-1627
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Abstract:
We propose a reformulation of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in terms of new variables. These variables are appropriate for describing the theory in its infrared limit, and indicate that it admits knotlike configurations as stable solitons. As a consequence we arrive at a dual picture of the Yang-Mills theory where the short distance limit describes asymptotically free, massless point gluons and the large distance limit describes extended, massive knotlike solitons.
  • gauge field theory: SU(2)
  • duality: transformation