Center vortices and monopoles without lattice Gribov copies

Aug, 2000
18 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 598 (2001) 557-577
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Abstract:
We construct a smooth gauge for the adjoint field which is free of ambiguities on the lattice. In this Laplacian Center Gauge, center vortices and monopoles appear together as local gauge defects. A numerical study of center vortices in SU(2) and SU(3) supports equality of the ZNZ_N and SU(N) string tensions in the continuum limit, and only then.
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  • 12.38.Aw
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  • gauge field theory: SU(2)
  • gauge field theory: SU(3)
  • lattice field theory
  • vortex
  • monopole
  • Laplace gauge
  • string tension
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