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Vortices and bags in 2+1 dimension
Cesar D. Fosco, Alex Kovner
We consider the effect of the (heavy) fundamental quarks on the low energy effective Lagrangian description of nonabelian gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions. We show that in the pres…
Deconfining Phase Transition in 2+1 D: the Georgi-Glashow Model
Gerald Dunne, Ian I. Kogan, Alex Kovner +1
We analyze the finite temperature deconfining phase transition in 2+1 dimensional Georgi-Glashow model. We show explicitly that the transition is due to the restoration of the magn…
Confinement, magnetic Z(N) symmetry and low energy effective theory of gluodynamics
Alex Kovner
In these notes I explain the idea how one could understand confinement by studying the low energy effective dynamics of non Abelian gauge theories. I argue that under some mild ass…
Magnetic Symmetries and Vortices In Chern-Simons Theories
Gerald Dunne, Alex Kovner, Bayram Tekin
We study the locality properties of the vortex operators in compact U(1) Maxwell-Chern-Simons and SU(N) Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theories in 2+1 dimensions. We find that these theor…
Magnetic Z(N) symmetry in hot QCD and the spatial Wilson loop
C. P. Korthals Altes, A. Kovner
We discuss the relation between the deconfining phase transition in gauge theories and the realization of the magnetic Z(N) symmetry. At low temperature the Z(N) symmetry is sponta…
Relating different approaches to nonlinear QCD evolution at finite gluon density
Alex Kovner, J. Guilherme Milhano, Heribert Weigert
We analyze the relation between evolution equations at low x that have been derived in different approaches in the last several years. We show that the equation derived by Balitsky…