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Confinement Mechanism in Various Abelian Projections of Lattice Gluodynamics

M. N. Chernodub, M. I. Polikarpov, A. I. Veselov

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/9512008

Abstract

We show that the monopole confinement mechanism in lattice gluodynamics may be a particular feature of the maximal abelian projection. We give an explicit example of the SU(2) → U(1) projection (the minimal abelian projection), in which the confinement is due to topological objects other than monopoles. We also discuss the string representation of the abelian projected SU(2) gluodynamics.

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