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't Hooft operator

'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.

Noun

't Hooft operator (plural 't Hooft operators)

  1. 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.

Forms of 't Hooft operator

plural't Hooft operators

Origin of 't Hooft operator

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

Questions about 't Hooft operator

What does 't Hooft operator mean?
't Hooft operator means 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.
What part of speech is 't Hooft operator?
't Hooft operator is a noun.
What is the plural of 't Hooft operator?
The plural of 't Hooft operator is 't Hooft operators.

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