Published October 9, 1978 | Version v1
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Exact analysis of Coulomb gauge vacuum degeneracies in (2+1) dimensions

  • 1. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (USA)

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The solutions of the two-dimensional euclidean sigma-model provide an infinite number of pure gauge field configurations satisfying the Coulomb gauge condition in (2+1) dimensions. For vacuum gauge fields associated with finite action instanton solutions of the sigma-model, it is found that the winding number n configuration leads to n negative eigenvalues for the ghost operator, up to a finite calculable degeneracy. (Auth.)

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Journal Title
Phys. Lett., B
Journal Volume
78
Journal Issue
4
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
438-442
ISSN
0031-9163