1-form symmetry versus large N QCD

Aleksey Cherman, Theodore Jacobson, Maria Neuzil

Published 2022-08-31Version 1

We show that large N QCD does not have an emergent $\mathbb{Z}_N$ 1-form symmetry. Our results suggest that a symmetry-based understanding of (approximate) confinement in QCD would require some further generalization of the notion of generalized global symmetries.