Unsolved problem in physics Yang–Mills theory and the mass gap. Quantum particles described by the theory have mass but the classical waves of the field...
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as follows: Yang–Mills Existence and Mass Gap. Prove that for any compact simple gauge group G, a non-trivial quantum Yang–Mills theory exists on R 4...
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N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills (SYM) theory is a relativistic conformally invariant Lagrangian gauge theory describing the interactions of fermions via...
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content of Yang–Mills theory being a single vector gauge field (in particle theory language) or connection (in geometric language). The theory was studied...
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Yang–Mills theory N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory...
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Yang is also well known for his collaboration with Robert Mills in developing non-abelian gauge theory, widely known as the Yang–Mills theory. Yang was...
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National Laboratory, Frank Yang Chen-Ning and Robert Mills formulated in 1954 a theory now known as the Yang–Mills theory – "the foundation for current...
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Instanton (redirect from Yang-Mills instanton)
used to study the tunneling behavior in various systems such as a Yang–Mills theory. Relevant to dynamics, families of instantons permit that instantons...
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In mathematical physics, two-dimensional Yang–Mills theory is the special case of Yang–Mills theory in which the dimension of spacetime is taken to be...
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and mathematics, and especially differential geometry and gauge theory, the Yang–Mills equations are a system of partial differential equations for a connection...
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In gauge theory, topological Yang–Mills theory, also known as the theta term or θ {\displaystyle \theta } -term is a gauge-invariant term which can be...
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theory in mathematical physics arose as a significant field of study with the seminal work of Robert Mills and Chen-Ning Yang on so-called Yang–Mills...
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more specifically in quantum field theory and supersymmetry, supersymmetric Yang–Mills, also known as super Yang–Mills and abbreviated to SYM, is a supersymmetric...
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is referred to as non-abelian gauge theory, the usual example being the Yang–Mills theory. Many powerful theories in physics are described by Lagrangians...
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renormalization of Yang–Mills theories. In 1971 his first paper was published. In it he showed how to renormalize massless Yang–Mills fields, and was able...
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quantum Yang-Mills theory exists without restriction to low energy scales. The problem is to establish rigorously the existence of the quantum Yang–Mills theory...
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lines and the full Yang–Mills field equations. Witten showed that a further extension, within the framework of super Yang–Mills theory, including fermionic...
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Anomaly (physics) (section Higher anomalies involving higher global symmetries: Pure Yang–Mills gauge theory as an example)
anomaly of 4 dimensional pure Yang–Mills theory can be precisely written as a 5 dimensional invertible topological field theory or mathematically a 5 dimensional...
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Pure spinor (section Supersymmetric Yang Mills theory)
generalizations of twistor theory, introduced by Roger Penrose in the 1960s. They have been applied to the study of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in 10D, superstrings...
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Caloron (category Gauge theories)
means that instanton solutions have to be periodic as well. In SU(2) Yang–Mills theory at zero temperature, the instantons have the form of the BPST instanton...
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Theta vacuum (category Gauge theories)
In quantum field theory, the theta vacuum is the semi-classical vacuum state of non-abelian Yang–Mills theories specified by the vacuum angle θ that arises...
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Supersymmetric Yang–Mills 4D N = 1 global supersymmetry Seiberg–Witten theory Super QCD (sQCD) N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory ABJM superconformal...
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Mass gap (category Quantum field theory)
the theory is preserved after quantization in the limit of momenta going to zero. While lattice computations have suggested that Yang–Mills theory indeed...
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1954, Yang Chen-Ning and Robert Mills generalized the local symmetry of QED, leading to non-Abelian gauge theories (also known as Yang–Mills theories), which...
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Center vortex (category Gauge theories)
vortices are line-like topological defects that exist in the vacuum of Yang–Mills theory and QCD. There is evidence in lattice simulations that they play an...
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Wilson loop (redirect from The wilson theory)
ones, the quark potential is really directly related to the pure Yang–Mills theory structure and is a phenomenon independent of the matter content. Elitzur's...
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quantum field theory. There is a firm belief in the physics community that the gauge theory of C.N. Yang and Robert Mills (the Yang–Mills theory) can lead...
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Leonard Gross (section Quantum Yang–Mills theory)
measure. Yang–Mills theory has been another focus of Gross's works. Since 2013, Gross and Nelia Charalambous have made a deep study of the Yang–Mills heat...
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In quantum field theory, gauge gravitation theory is the effort to extend Yang–Mills theory, which provides a universal description of the fundamental...
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Faddeev–Popov ghost (category Gauge theories)
Lagrangian for the ghost fields c a ( x ) {\displaystyle c^{a}(x)\,} in Yang–Mills theories (where a {\displaystyle a} is an index in the adjoint representation...
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