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Magnetic Monopoles and the Topology of Gauge Fields

H. Reinhardt

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9808008

Abstract

Lattice calculations performed in Abelian gauges give strong evidence that confinement is realized as a dual Meissner effect, implying that the Yang--Mills vacuum consists of a condensate of magnetic monopoles. We show in Polyakov gauge how the Pontrjagin index of the gauge field is related to the magnetic monopole charges.

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