XVIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum

Symmetries of large N QCD

Aug 22, 2024, 2:00 PM

30m

M2

Oral A: Vacuum Structure and Confinement Vacuum Structure and Confinement

Speaker

Aleksey Cherman (University of Minnesota)

Description

I'll discuss the symmetries of large N QCD, focusing on how a 1-form symmetry emerges at large N, as well as its connections to confinement, 't Hooft anomalies, and a consequent constraint on the phase diagram as a function of temperature.

Presentation materials

largeN_symmetries_Cairns2024.pdf