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