Topology in QCD

Abstract

I review recent (and some not so recent) results on the topological susceptibility (with and without fermions), the eta-prime mass, topology and chiral symmetry breaking, vacuum topological structure, and the possible role of instantons in confinement.

LATTICE99(plenary), 5 pages

Cited by in corpus (9)

• Theta dependence of SU(N) gauge theories in the presence of a topological term
• Theta-dependence of the spectrum of SU(N) gauge theories
• Evidence Against Instanton Dominance of Topological Charge Fluctuations in QCD
• Local Chirality of Low-Lying Dirac Eigenmodes and the Instanton Liquid Model
• Topological susceptibility from twisted mass fermions using spectral projectors and the gradient flow
• Topology across the finite temperature transition studied by overimproved cooling in gluodynamics and QCD
• Evidence for fine tuning of fermionic modes in lattice gluodynamics
• Accessing the topological susceptibility via the Gribov horizon
• $U(1{)}_A$ axial anomaly, ${\eta }^{\prime }$, and topological susceptibility in the holographic soft-wall model