SU(N) GAUGE-THEORIES WITH C-PERIODIC BOUNDARY-CONDITIONS .2. SMALL-VOLUME DYNAMICS

The dynamics of SU(N) gauge theories, especially for N = 3, in a small C-periodic box are investigated. We identify the fields that mimimize the energy - the torons - and determine which of these ''classical'' vacua are stable quantum mechanically. The stable torons break cubic s ymmetry, which has interesting consequences on the spectrum. At any of the stable torons there are also quartic modes. Since all C-periodic boundary conditions are gauge-equivalent, we choose a convenient versi on, for which the quartic modes are constant modes, and compute the ef fective hamiltonian to one loop in perturbation theory.