nLab5d ago

Yang-Mills mass gap

Urs Schreiber
physics, mathematical physics, philosophy of physics theory (physics), model (physics) experiment, measurement, computable physics Axiomatizations Tools Structural phenomena Types of quantum field thories examples The Yang-Mills Mass Gap problem is an open conceptual problem in the quantization of Yang-Mills theory (cf. general spectral gaps of quantum systems), closely related to what in the phenomenology of quantum chromodynamics is called the confinement of quarks, hence the existence of...