Confinement from Center Vortices: A review of old and new results

Abstract

I briefly review the numerical evidence, some old and some quite recent, in favor of the center vortex theory of confinement.

Invited talk at the Confinement 12 meeting, Thessaloniki, Greece, Aug. 2016. 12 pages, 8 figures

References in corpus (4)

• Confining ensemble of dyons
• Double-winding Wilson loops and monopole confinement mechanisms
• Connection between centre vortices and instantons through gauge-field smoothing
• Center vortex model for the infrared sector of SU(3) Yang-Mills theory: Topological susceptibility

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