Long-Distance Behavior of the Invariant Charge in Non-Abelian Gauge Theories

We review and elaborate on properties of the string tension in two-dimensional gauge theories. The first model we consider is massive QED in the m≪e limit. We evaluate the leading string tension both in the fermionic and bosonized descriptions. We discuss the next-to-leading corrections in m/e. The next-to-leading terms in the long distance behavior of the quark–antiquark potential, are evaluated in a certain region of external versus dynamical charges. The finite temperature behavior is also determined. In QCD 2 we review the results for the string tension of quarks in cases with dynamical quarks in the fundamental, adjoint, symmetric and antisymmetric representations. The screening nature of SYM 2 is re-derived.

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The Power of Duality — Exact Results in 4D SUSY Field Theory

International Journal of Modern Physics A ◽

10.1142/s0217751x97002772 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 12 (29) ◽

pp. 5171-5182 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

N. Seiberg

Keyword(s):

Gauge Theories ◽

Quantum Field Theories ◽

Quantum Field ◽

Long Distance ◽

Strongly Coupled ◽

Weakly Coupled ◽

Wide Range ◽

Distance Behavior ◽

Physical Phenomena

Recently the vacuum structure of a large class of four-dimensional (supersymmetric) quantum field theories was determined exactly. These theories exhibit a wide range of interesting new physical phenomena. One of the main new insights is the role of "electric–magnetic duality." In its simplest form it describes the long distance behavior of some strongly coupled, and hence complicated, "electric theories" in terms of weakly coupled "magnetic theories." This understanding sheds new light on confinement and the Higgs mechanism and uncovers new phases of four-dimensional gauge theories. We review these developments and speculate on the outlook.

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THE POWER OF DUALITY — EXACT RESULTS IN 4D SUSY FIELD THEORY

International Journal of Modern Physics A ◽

10.1142/s0217751x01005705 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 16 (27) ◽

pp. 4365-4376 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

N. SEIBERG

Keyword(s):

Gauge Theories ◽

Quantum Field Theories ◽

Quantum Field ◽

Long Distance ◽

Strongly Coupled ◽

Weakly Coupled ◽

Wide Range ◽

Distance Behavior ◽

Physical Phenomena

Recently the vacuum structure of a large class of four-dimensional (supersymmetric) quantum field theories was determined exactly. These theories exhibit a wide range of interesting new physical phenomena. One of the main new insights is the role of "electric–magnetic duality." In its simplest form it describes the long distance behavior of some strongly coupled, and hence complicated, "electric theories" in terms of weakly coupled "magnetic theories." This understanding sheds new light on confinement and the Higgs mechanism and uncovers new phases of four-dimensional gauge theories. We review these developments and speculate on the outlook.

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Geometry and Quantum Dynamics

10.1093/oso/9780198788393.003.0014 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Laurent Baulieu ◽

John Iliopoulos ◽

Roland Sénéor

Keyword(s):

General Relativity ◽

Quantum Dynamics ◽

Gauge Theories ◽

Brst Symmetry ◽

Abelian Gauge ◽

Yang Mills ◽

History Of ◽

Brst Invariance

A geometrical derivation of Abelian and non- Abelian gauge theories. The Faddeev–Popov quantisation. BRST invariance and ghost fields. General discussion of BRST symmetry. Application to Yang–Mills theories and general relativity. A brief history of gauge theories.

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Cwebs beyond three loops in multiparton amplitudes

Journal of High Energy Physics ◽

10.1007/jhep03(2021)188 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Neelima Agarwal ◽

Lorenzo Magnea ◽

Sourav Pal ◽

Anurag Tripathi

Keyword(s):

Gauge Theories ◽

Anomalous Dimension ◽

Wilson Line ◽

Building Blocks ◽

Feynman Diagrams ◽

Loop Order ◽

Abelian Gauge ◽

Sum Rule ◽

Combinatorial Properties ◽

Low Dimensional

Abstract Correlators of Wilson-line operators in non-abelian gauge theories are known to exponentiate, and their logarithms can be organised in terms of collections of Feynman diagrams called webs. In [1] we introduced the concept of Cweb, or correlator web, which is a set of skeleton diagrams built with connected gluon correlators, and we computed the mixing matrices for all Cwebs connecting four or five Wilson lines at four loops. Here we complete the evaluation of four-loop mixing matrices, presenting the results for all Cwebs connecting two and three Wilson lines. We observe that the conjuctured column sum rule is obeyed by all the mixing matrices that appear at four-loops. We also show how low-dimensional mixing matrices can be uniquely determined from their known combinatorial properties, and provide some all-order results for selected classes of mixing matrices. Our results complete the required colour building blocks for the calculation of the soft anomalous dimension matrix at four-loop order.

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Covariant phase space and soft factorization in non-Abelian gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics ◽

10.1007/jhep03(2021)015 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Temple He ◽

Prahar Mitra

Keyword(s):

Phase Space ◽

Ward Identity ◽

Gauge Theories ◽

Minkowski Spacetime ◽

Soft Gluon ◽

Careful Study ◽

Abelian Gauge ◽

Gauge Sector ◽

Vacuum States ◽

The One

Abstract We perform a careful study of the infrared sector of massless non-abelian gauge theories in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime using the covariant phase space formalism, taking into account the boundary contributions arising from the gauge sector of the theory. Upon quantization, we show that the boundary contributions lead to an infinite degeneracy of the vacua. The Hilbert space of the vacuum sector is not only shown to be remarkably simple, but also universal. We derive a Ward identity that relates the n-point amplitude between two generic in- and out-vacuum states to the one computed in standard QFT. In addition, we demonstrate that the familiar single soft gluon theorem and multiple consecutive soft gluon theorem are consequences of the Ward identity.

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