Speaker
            
    Antonio Gonzalez-Arroyo
        
            (Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC)
        
    Description
We report results obtained for SU(2) Yang-Mills theory on a 4d torus with two directions much smaller than the other two. The small 2-torus is equipped with twisted boundary conditions. This construction provides a way to interpolate from a region in which semiclassical methods can be applied (for small 2-torus size) to the standard infinite volume case. Our simulations at small torus sizes show how the topological charge and the string tension result from a gas of vortex-like fractional instantons. As the size becomes larger the density increases in agreement with fractional instanton liquid model picture of the Yang-Mills vacuum.
Authors
        
            
                
                
                    Antonio Gonzalez-Arroyo
                
                
                        (Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC)
                    
            
        
            
                
                
                    Georg Bergner
                
                
                        (University of Jena)
                    
            
        
            
                
                
                    Ivan Soler
                
                
                        (University of Pisa)
                    
            
        
    
        