Instantons or Monopoles? Dyons

Preprint

15 May 1996

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-lat/9605019

Abstract

Non-abelian gauge theories can be cast into abelian gauge theories with monopoles. We ask what becomes of the instantons after abelian projection. Instantons are found to consist of closed dyon loops. It is shown that the electric charge of the dyons is quantized. The implication of this result for the dynamics of the Yang-Mills vacuum is briefly discussed.

Keywords

ABELIAN GAUGE THEORIES
GAUGE THEORIES
INSTANTONS
MONOPOLES
QUANTIZED
MILLS
DYONS
CAST

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Version 1, 1996-05-15, ArXiv
Published version: Physics Letters B, 384 (1-4), 190.

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