The vortex-finding property of maximal center (and other) gauges

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 1999, Pages

  Faber, Manfried ^a   Greensite, Jeff ^b,c   Olejnfk, Stefan ^d   Yamada, Daisuke ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Confinement; Lattice gauge field theories; Solitons monopoles and instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646057323     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/12/012     Document Type: Article

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