Galatasaray Üniversitesi Matematik Bölümü Seminerleri
Quarks: Who will prove the color confinement conjecture? Mathematicians or Physicists?
Tekin Dereli
Koç University, Türkiye
One of the seven Millenium Problems announced in 2000 by the Clay Foundation was the “mass gap problem”. This problem is still open and concerns the proof of quark confinement conjecture, crucial for the success of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) in sub-nuclear physics. After a quick, broad review of QCD as a quantized field theory, I want to comment on its asymptotic freedom and some consequences of UV-IR duality it implies.
