5 papers
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.…
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…
An Analytic Yang-Mills Vacuum Calculation in
Seth Grable
I present a novel analytic framework for Yang-Mills theory in the four-dimensional continuum. Background and effective field theory techniques are used to include non-pertu…
Vanishing Polyakov Loop for QCD with Twelve Massless Quarks
Seth Grable, Paul Romatschke
We consider continuum-formulation QCD in four dimensions with twelve massless fundamental quark flavors. Splitting the SU(\(N\)) gauge field into background and fluctuation parts,…
A Fully Solvable Model of Fermionic Interaction in
Seth Grable, Max Weiner
Recently, Romatschke found that the poles in scalar theories do not affect observables such as temperature and pressure. Romatschke went on to show this result holds for mar…