Farewell to Instantons

  • Adrian Patrascioiu
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Part of the The Subnuclear Series book series (SUS, volume 17)

Abstract

At the present time the instanton is being used in QCD to explain color confinement, dynamical symmetry breaking with fermion mass generation, and to resolve the U(1)-problem (Callan et al., 1978; Carlitz and Creamer,1979). In my lecture I would like to show that for some technical reasons it is doubtful that the instanton accomplishes these feats and that it is even possibly irrelevant to the structure of QCD altogether.

Keywords

Infrared Divergence Ultraviolet Divergence Massless Fermion Correct Boundary Condition Dynamical Symmetry Breaking 
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© Plenum Press, New York 1982

Authors and Affiliations

  • Adrian Patrascioiu
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  1. 1.Department of PhysicsUniversity of ArizonaTucsonUSA

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