't Hooft operator
English
editEtymology
editIntroduced by Gerard 't Hooft in the 1978 paper On the phase transition towards permanent quark confinement.
Noun
edit't Hooft operator (plural 't Hooft operators)
- (physics) A dual version of the Wilson loop in which the electromagnetic potential A is replaced by its electromagnetic dual Amag, where the exterior derivative of A is equal to the Hodge dual of the exterior derivative of Amag.