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Ghost Hunting in the Yang-Mills Vacuum
Seth Grable
In this work, I analyze the zero modes of a one-loop semiclassical Yang-Mills theory in \(3+1\)d. I find that zero modes are generated by gauge redundancy of the background field.…
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Scalar Charges in a Self-Dual Background
Seth Grable, Jamison Barcelona
In this work, we present a \(3+1d\) scalar QED model in a constant self-dual magnetic field configuration. We provide exact closed form analytic calculations of the partition funct…