Charge screening and mass spectrum
- 15 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 13 (2), 312-314
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.13.312
Abstract
A general connection between the existence of charge sectors and the mass spectrum is established in Abelian gauge theories in a space-time of dimension larger than two. The exceptional role of two-dimensional space-time is related to Coleman's "quantum soliton."Keywords
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