1-form symmetry versus large N QCD

[摘要] We show that large N QCD does not have an emergent ℤN 1-form symmetry. Our results suggest that a symmetry-based understanding of (approximate) confinement in QCD would require some further generalization of the notion of generalized global symmetries.

[发布日期] 2023-01-31

[关键词] N;Confinement;Wilson, ’t Hooft and Polyakov loops