Gauge-invariant charged, monopole and dyon fields in gauge theories
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Description
We propose explicit recipes to construct the Euclidean Green functions of gauge-invariant charged, monopole and dyon fields in four-dimensional gauge theories whose phase diagram contains phases with deconfined electric and/or magnetic charges. In theories with only either abelian electric or magnetic charges, our construction is an Euclidean version of Dirac's original proposal, the magnetic dual of his proposal, respectively. Rigorous mathematical control is achieved for a class of abelian lattice theories. In theories where electric and magnetic charges coexist, our construction of Green functions of electrically or magnetically charged fields involves taking an average over Mandelstam strings or the dual magnetic flux tubes, in accordance with Dirac's flux quantization condition. We apply our construction to 't Hooft-Polyakov monopoles and Julia-Zee dyons. Connections between our construction and the semiclassical approach are discussed
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Identifiers
- PII
- S0550321399002308;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. B
- Journal Volume
- 551
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 770-812
- ISSN
- 0550-3213
- CODEN
- NUPBBO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 34082430
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DIRAC EQUATION; DYONS; EUCLIDEAN SPACE; FLUX QUANTIZATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; GREEN FUNCTION; LATTICE FIELD THEORY; MAGNETIC FLUX; MONOPOLES; PHASE DIAGRAMS
- Descriptors DEC
- CONSTRUCTIVE FIELD THEORY; DIAGRAMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RIEMANN SPACE; SPACE; WAVE EQUATIONS
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.