Published November 3, 1988
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Journal article
The strong coupling β-function of Yang-Mills theories and the Nielsen-Olesen unstable modes
Creators
- 1. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Catania (Italy)
- 2. Catania Univ. (Italy). Dipt. di Fisica
Description
Differently from QED, the strong coupling β-function of non-abelian gauge theories is related to the long wavelength field configurations. To get an insight we discuss the renormalization group equations for the effective potential in arbitrarily large quantization volumes. The contribution of the Nielsen-Olesen unstable modes to the energy density of constant background fields may be indicative of the existence of an infrared Landau pole in pure Yang-Mills theories. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters, (Section) B
- Journal Volume
- 213
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Series
- Phys. Lett., B.
- Journal Page Range
- 493-496
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 20006799
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANALYTIC FUNCTIONS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ENERGY DENSITY; INFRARED DIVERGENCES; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; POTENTIALS; RENORMALIZATION; SINGULARITY; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; YANG-MILLS THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY