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Phys. Rev. D 21, 2916–2925 (1980)

Dual formulation of non-Abelian gauge theories

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Yoichi Kazama
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510

Robert Savit
Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

Received 8 January 1980; published in the issue dated 15 May 1980

Motivated by an analogy with Abelian theories, we construct a new duality transformation for non-Abelian gauge theories. For large coupling the gauge-theory vacuum should have its most important contributions from configurations of the dual fields without large fluctuations. The generating functional when expressed in terms of the dual variables has a rather simple and suggestive structure which manifests some features of a gauge theory, but now a gauge theory of the dual variables with the coupling constant inverted. We discuss several aspects of this representation including the possibility of using it as the basis for a strong-coupling expansion for the field theory. We also investigate a systematic, formal (perturbative) solution to a constraint condition among our dual variables which has the form of a Bianchi identity.

© 1980 The American Physical Society

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