S. Sasaki et O. Miyamura, A conclusive test of abelian dominance hypothesis for topological charge in the QCD vacuum, NUCL PH B-P, 73, 1999, pp. 545-547
We study the topological feature in the QCD vacuum based on the hypothesis
of abelian dominance. The topological charge Q(SU(2)) can be explicitly rep
resented in terms of the monopole current in the abelian dominated system.
To appreciate its justification, we directly measure the corresponding topo
logical charge Q(Mono), which is reconstructed only from the monopole curre
nt and the abelian component of gauge fields, by using the Monte Carlo simu
lation on SU(2) lattice. We find that there exists a one-to-one corresponde
nce between Q(SU(2)) and Q(Mono) in the maximally abelian gauge. Furthermor
e, Q(Mono) is classified by approximately discrete values.