't Hooft operator

noun

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.

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Meanings

noun't Hooft operator (plural 't Hooft operators)

plural 't Hooft operators

  1. natural sciencesA 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.

Origin

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

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