Wilsonian effective action for SU(2) Yang-Mills theory with the Cho-Faddeev-Niemi-Shabanov decomposition
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- 22 May 2001
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- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 63 (12) , 125023
Abstract
The Cho-Faddeev-Niemi-Shabanov decomposition of the SU(2) Yang-Mills field is employed for the calculation of the corresponding Wilsonian effective action to one-loop order with covariant gauge fixing. The generation of a mass scale is observed, and the flow of the marginal couplings is studied. Our results indicate that higher-derivative terms of the color-unit-vector field are necessary for the description of topologically stable knotlike solitons which have been conjectured to be the large-distance degrees of freedom.
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