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Gauge invariance and lattice monopoles

Journal Article · · AIP Conference Proceedings
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3536546· OSTI ID:21510018
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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Pisa (Italy)
The number and the location of monopoles in Lattice configurations depend on the choice of the gauge, in contrast to the obvious requirement that monopoles, as physical objects, have a gauge-invariant status. It is proved, starting from non-abelian Bianchi identities, that monopoles are indeed gauge-invariant: the technique used to detect them has instead an efficiency which depends on the choice of the abelian projection, in a known and well understood way.
OSTI ID:
21510018
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1317; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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