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- Title
Geometric Confinement in Gauge Theories.
- Authors
Popov, Alexander D.
- Abstract
In 1978, Friedberg and Lee introduced the phenomenological soliton bag model of hadrons, generalizing the MIT bag model developed in 1974 shortly after the formulation of QCD. In this model, quarks and gluons are confined due to coupling with a real scalar field ρ , which tends to zero outside some compact region S ⊂ R 3 determined dynamically from the equations of motion. The gauge coupling in the soliton bag model runs as the inverse power of ρ , already at the semiclassical level. We show that this model arises naturally as a consequence of introducing the warped product metric d s M 2 + ρ 2 d s G 2 on the principal G-bundle P (M , G) ≅ M × G with a non-Abelian group G over Minkowski space M = R 3 , 1 . Confinement of quarks and gluons in a compact domain S ⊂ R 3 is a consequence of the collapse of the bundle manifold M × G to M outside S due to shrinking of the group manifold G to a point. We describe the formation of such regions S as a dynamical process controlled by the order parameter field ρ.
- Subjects
QUARK confinement; EQUATIONS of motion; NONABELIAN groups; MINKOWSKI space; QUANTUM chromodynamics; GLUONS; LATTICE field theory; SCALAR field theory
- Publication
Symmetry (20738994), 2023, Vol 15, Issue 5, p1054
- ISSN
2073-8994
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/sym15051054