"'t Hooft operator" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: 't Hooft operators [plural]
Etymology: Introduced by Gerard 't Hooft in the 1978 paper On the phase transition towards permanent quark confinement. Head templates: {{en-noun|head='t Hooft operator}} 't Hooft operator (plural 't Hooft operators)
  1. (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. Wikipedia link: 't Hooft operator, Gerard 't Hooft Categories (topical): Physics

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