Classical Euclidean field configurations and charge confinement
- 15 March 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 17 (6), 1605-1612
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.17.1605
Abstract
The possibility of the confinement of external charge in a pure Yang-Mills theory is discussed. Only field configurations which almost obey the classical field equations are considered. The two- and three-dimensional models of Callan, Dashen, and Gross and of Polyakov are reviewed. If confinement occurs in a four-dimensional pure Yang-Mills theory it is concluded that field configurations which are far from obeying the Euclidean classical equations of motion must be predominant.Keywords
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