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Center vortex

Type of topological defects in the Yang–Mills vacuum

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Gluon field strength tensor

Second-rank tensor in quantum chromodynamics

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Proca action

Action of a massive abelian gauge field

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Gribov ambiguity

Gauge fixing ambiguity

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Yang–Mills theory

Quantum field theory

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Gauge theory gravity

Geometric algebra approach to gravity

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Faddeev–Popov ghost

Type of unphysical field in quantum field theory which provides mathematical consistency

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Yukawa potential

Screened Coulomb potential which exponentially decays

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Dirac string

Unobservable spacetime curves needed to describe Dirac monopoles

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S-duality

Equivalence of two physical theories

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't Hooft loop

Magnetic loop operator dual to the Wilson loop

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Quantization of the electromagnetic field

Quantization giving rise to photons

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Non-abelian gauge transformation

Symmetry transformation in particle physics for the strong and weak forces

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Ward–Takahashi identity

Identity in abelian theories due to gauge invariance

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Gupta–Bleuler formalism

Gauge fixing procedure

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Vacuum polarization

Gauge boson self-energy due to interactions with virtual particles

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't Hooft symbol

Mathematical symbol used in algebras

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Theta vacuum

Yang–Mills theory vacuum state

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Seiberg duality

Renormalization group duality in supersymmetric gauge theories

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Montonen–Olive duality

Strong-weak duality in supersymmetric theories of theoretical physics

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Minimal coupling

Field theory coupling of charge but not higher moments

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Gauge gravitation theory

Attempt to extend Yang–Mills theory to gravity

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Wilson loop

Gauge field loop operator

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BRST quantization

Formulation to quantize gauge field theories in physics

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