Abstract
We analyse some non-perturbative properties of the Yang-Mills vacuum in twodimensional spaces in the presence of Chern-Simons interactions. We show that the vacuum functional vanishes for some gauge field configurations. We have identified some of those nodal configurations which are characterized by the property of carrying a non-trivial magnetic charge. In abelian gauge theories this fact explains why magnetic monopoles are suppressed by ChernSimons interactions. In non-abelian theories it suggests a relevant role for nodal gauge field configurations in the confinement mechanism of Yang-Mills theories. In topological Chern-Simons theories nodal configurations belong to Atiyah-Bott strata with non-null codimension in the space of gauge field configurations. In the presence of external static quarks some nodes of the vacuum functional with non-trivial magnetic charge are removed and they are responsible for the increase of vacuum energy.
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