Interpretation of pseudoparticles in physical gauges
- 15 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 15 (12) , 3656-3659
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.15.3656
Abstract
The effects of pseudoparticle solutions to Yang-Mills field theories are discussed for gauges where the uniquely determine the potentials. Even though a unique vacuum is found, the physical consequences obtained by previous authors are shown to occur. It is then shown how the gauge may be reformulated to give a unique vacuum. The many vacuums found by previous authors are seen to be artifacts of a particular parametrization of function space.
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