English Explanatory Dictionary

't Hooft operator

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A dual version of the Wilson loop in which the electromagnetic potential A is replaced by its electromagnetic dual Aᵐᵃᵍ, where the exterior derivative of A is equal to the Hodge dual of the exterior derivative of Aᵐᵃᵍ.

Word forms

't Hooft operator 't Hooft operators

Etymology

Introduced by Gerard 't Hooft in the 1978 paper On the phase transition towards permanent quark confinement.

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