Dimensional transmutation by monopole condensation in QCD

Abstract

We compare two competing conjectures of the color confinement in QCD, the monopole condensation and the Abelian dominance, and show that it is the monopole condensation which is responsible for the confinement. To demonstrate this we present a new gauge invariant integral expression of the one-loop QCD effective action which has no infra-red divergence. With this we show that, just as the GSO-projection restores the supersymmetry and modular invariance in NSR string theory, the color reflection invariance ("the C-projection") assures the gauge invariance and the stability of the monopole condensation. This establishes the monopole dominance in QCD. In doing so we point out critical defects in the calculation of the Savvidy-Nielsen-Olesen (SNO) effective action.