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Faddeev-Niemi Conjecture and Effective Action of QCD

Y. M. Cho, H. W. Lee, D. G. Pak

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0105198

Abstract

We calculate a one loop effective action of SU(2) QCD in the presence of the monopole background, and find a possible connection between the resulting QCD effective action and a generalized Skyrme-Faddeev action of the non-linear sigma model. The result is obtained using the gauge-independent decomposotion of the gauge potential into the topological degrees which describes the non-Abelian monopoles and the local dynamical degrees of the potential, and integrating out all the dynamical degrees of QCD.

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