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Abstract:
We derive a generalized Skyrme-Faddeev action as the effective action of QCD in the low energy limit. Our result demonstrates the existence of a mass gap in QCD which triggers the confinement of color.
  • gauge field theory: SU(2)
  • effective action
  • mass: gap
  • color: confinement
  • topology