An effective action for monopoles and knot solitons in Yang-Mills theory
arXiv:hep-th/9903223 · doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00612-7
Abstract
By comparision with numerical results in the maximal Abelian projection of lattice Yang-Mills theory, it is argued that the nonperturbative dynamics of Yang Mills theory can be described by a set of fields that take their values in the coset space SU(2)/U(1). The Yang-Mills connection is parameterized in a special way to separate the dependence on the coset field. The coset field is then regarded as a collective variable, and a method to obtain its effective action is developed. It is argued that the physical excitations of the effective action may be knot solitons. A procedure to calculate the mass scale of knot solitons is discussed for lattice gauge theories in the maximal Abelian projection. The approach is extended to the SU(N) Yang-Mills theory. A relation between the large N limit and the monopole dominance is pointed out.
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