1-form symmetry versus large N QCD

Abstract

We show that large N QCD does not have an emergent ZN 1-form symmetry. Our results suggest that a symmetry-based understanding of (approximate) confinement in QCD would require some further generalization of the notion of generalized global symmetries.

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