28 July 2024 to 3 August 2024
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Fractional instantons and Confinement: first results for T^2xR^2

29 Jul 2024, 15:35
20m
Talk Vacuum Structure and Confinement Vacuum structure and confinement

Speaker

Ivan Soler (University of Pisa)

Description

In this talk, we provide results for our first studies of Yang-Mills theory on a 4d torus with twisted boundary conditions. We show how information of the semiclassical confinement at small T^2 size is extracted. Different strategies to apply gradient flow techniques and instanton identifications are presented and discussed. We show how the identification becomes increasingly challenging once the small circle regime is left. We discuss possible implications for an instanton liquid model.

Primary authors

Antonio Gonzalez-Arroyo (Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC) Georg Bergner (University of Jena) Ivan Soler (University of Pisa)

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