Lattice Fermions and Structure of the Vacuum

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Remarks on Domain-Wall Fermions....Pages 1-9
Domain-Wall Fermions in Vector Theories....Pages 11-26
Better Domain-Wall Fermions....Pages 27-39
Truncated Overlap Fermions: the Link Between Overlap and Domain Wall Fermions....Pages 41-52
Topology and Chiral Symmetry in QCD with Overlap Fermions....Pages 53-64
First Experiences with HMC for Dynamical Overlap Fermions....Pages 65-68
Some Answered and Unanswered Questions about the Structure of the Set of Fermionic Actions with GWL Symmetry....Pages 69-76
Optimizing Chirality and Scaling of Lattice Fermion....Pages 77-89
Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Strongly Coupled 1 + 1 Dimensional Lattice Gauge Theories....Pages 91-98
Regularization and Anomalies in Gauge Theory....Pages 99-112
Chiral Symmetry Outside Perturbation Theory....Pages 113-124
Dirac Operator Normality and Chiral Fermions on the Lattice....Pages 125-136
Abelian and Nonabelian Lattice Chiral Gauge Theories Through Gauge Fixing....Pages 137-151
On the Eta-Invariant in the 4D Chiral U(1) Theory....Pages 153-161
Overview of the Chiral Fermions on 2D Torus....Pages 163-171
’T Hooft Vertex in the Chiral Schwinger Model....Pages 173-181
Multifield Effective Action for Lattice QCD....Pages 183-193
An Investigation of a New Multiboson Algorithm Proposed by Slavnov....Pages 195-200
Quenched QCD Near the Chiral Limit....Pages 201-209
Decorrelation of the Topological Charge in Tempered Simulations of Full QCD....Pages 211-218
Computational Costs of Future QCD Simulations in the Deep Chiral Regime....Pages 219-233
Some Considerations on Lattice Gauge Fixing....Pages 235-243
Remarks on Lattice Gauge Fixing....Pages 245-252
Preliminary Results with Lattice Covariant Gauge....Pages 253-256
Lorentz Gauge Fixing and Lattice QED....Pages 257-267
Instantons Versus Monopoles....Pages 269-279
Classical Solutions and the Vacuum Structure in Lattice Gauge Theories....Pages 281-286
On the Topological Structure of the QCD Vacuum....Pages 287-298
Instantons and Fermions on the Lattice....Pages 299-306
Phononlike Excitations of Instanton Liquid and New Scale of Non-Perturbative QCD....Pages 307-314
Vortices and Confinement....Pages 315-326
Some Pieces of Lattice Evidence in Favor of the Center-Vortex Picture of Color Confinement....Pages 327-334
Embedded Vortices and Their Interactions at Electroweak Crossover....Pages 335-338
Chirality Carried by Monopoles....Pages 339-343
Half-Integer Topological Charges Below and Above the Deconfinement Transition?....Pages 345-351
Phase Structure of Hot Gauge Theories with Matter Fields....Pages 353-356
Random Matrix Theory and Dirac Spectrum at Nonzero Temperature and Density....Pages 357-368
Short Strings and New Physics Perspectives in QCD....Pages 369-380
Back Matter....Pages 381-383