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Field Decomposition and the Ground State Structure of SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory

Lisa Freyhult

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0106239

Abstract

We compute the effective potential of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory using the background field method and the Faddeev-Niemi decomposition of the gauge fields. In particular, we find that the potential will depend on the values of two scalar fields in the decomposition and that its structure will give rise to a symmetry breaking.

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