Taming the Forces Between Quarks and Gluons - Calorons Out of the Box: Scientific Papers by Pierre Van Baal

This volume is a collection of selected papers by Pierre van Baal on the subject of quark gluon interactions. He concentrates on semi-perturbative phenomena that occur when these particles are confined to a box. He introduced in 1998 the notion of calorons to explain what happens in the high temperature phase of the quark gluon plasma. Van Baal's discoveries of the mathematical intricacies of twisted gluon field configurations have left their mark on the field opening new directions for numerical simulations. This reprint is intended to be a comprehensive introduction for all those who wish to have deeper understanding of quark gluon dynamics.

Some Results for SU(N) Gauge Fields on the Hypertorus (P van Baal); SU(N) Yang - Mills Solutions with Constant Field Strength on T4 (P van Baal); The Group Theory of Twist Eating Solutions (B van Geemen and P van Baal); QCD on a Torus and Electric Flux Energies from Tunneling (P van Baal and J Koller); SU(2) Spectroscopy in Intermediate Volumes (P van Baal and J Koller); Nahm's Tranformation for Instantons (P J Braam and P van Baal); On the Algebraic Characterization of Witten's Topological Yang - Mills Theory (S Ouvry, R Stora and P van Baal); An Introduction to Topological Yang - Mills Theory (P van Baal); More (Thoughts on) Gribov Copies (P van Baal); Instantons from Over-Improved Cooling (M Garcia Perez, A Gonzalez-Arroyo, J Snippe and P van Baal); Exact T-Duality between Calorons and Taub - NUT Spaces (P van Baal and T C Kraan); Periodic Instantons with Non-Trivial Holonomy (P van Baal and T C Kraan); Monopole Constituents inside SU(n) Calorons (P van Baal and T C Kraan); Exact Fermion Zeromode for the New Calorons (M N Chernodub, T C Kraan and P van Baal); Multi-Caloron Solutions (F Bruckmann and P van Baal); and other papers.