Detection of vortices with Laplacian Center Gauge
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Gauge fixing seems to be crucial to identify the relevant degrees of freedom for confinement. In the vortex theory of confinement these degrees of freedom are bi-dimensional objects carrying flux quantized in elements of the center of the group. Center gauge fixing, a gauge fixing prescription having a remaining ZN freedom, is needed to identify these objects. In this paper we study how Laplacian Center Gauge locates vortex cores on the lattice.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001