TOPOLOGICAL CONFINEMENT IN QCD2

In two dimensional SU(N) theories confinement can be understood as a t opological property of the vacuum. In the bosonized version of two dim ensional theories non trivial boundary conditions (topology) play a cr ucial role. They are inevitable if one wants to describe non singlet s tates. In abelian bosonization, color is the charge of a topological c urrent in terms of a non-linear meson field. We show that confinement appears as the dynamical collapse of the topology associated with its non trivial boundary conditions.