Volume: 17, Issue: 25(2002)
pp. 3681-3688 DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X02010753
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| Title: |
FIELD DECOMPOSITION AND THE GROUND STATE STRUCTURE OF SU(2) YANG–MILLS
THEORY |
| Author(s): |
LISA FREYHULT
Department of Theoretical Physics, Uppsala University,
PO Box 803, S-75108, Uppsala, Sweden
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| History: |
Received 26 February 2002
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| Abstract: |
We compute the effective potential of SU(2) Yang–Mills theory using the
background field method and the Faddeev–Niemi decomposition of the gauge fields.
In particular, we find that the potential will depend on the values of two scalar fields
in the decomposition and that its structure will give rise to a symmetry breaking. |
| Keywords: |
Yang–Mills theory; effective potential; radiative corrections
PACS numbers:
11.27+d, 11.15Ex, 11.15-q
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