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To describe the structure of the quantum vacuum in Yang-Mills theory and provide a physical interpretation for pseudoparticle solutions and associated symmetry violations.

July 19, 1976Physical Review Letters

Vacuum Periodicity in a Yang-Mills Quantum Theory

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To describe the structure of the quantum vacuum in Yang-Mills theory and provide a physical interpretation for pseudoparticle solutions and associated symmetry violations.
Analyzed topologically inequivalent classical gauge field configurations within a quantum Yang-Mills framework.
Evaluated quantum vacuum stability requirements under continuous and large gauge transformations.
Demonstrated the existence of a continuous family of quantum vacua parameterized by a CP-violating angle.
Showed that enforcing vacuum stability under gauge transformations necessarily renders the vacuum states chirally noninvariant.

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Theoretical analysis reveals a family of periodic quantum vacua in Yang-Mills theory, indicating intrinsic violations of CP and chiral symmetries.

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Jackiw et al. (1976) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0903ca14243797f79d0cf7 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.37.172

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Theoretical analysis reveals a family of periodic quantum vacua in Yang-Mills theory, indicating intrinsic violations of CP and chiral symmetries.

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