Vortex structure vs. monopole dominance in abelian-projected gauge theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 17-39

  Ambjørn, Jan ^a   Giedt, Joel ^b   Greensite, Jeff ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confinement; Lattice Gauge Field Theories; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 7044235227     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/02/033     Document Type: Article

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