{
  "id": "2209.00027",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2022-08-31T18:00:03.000Z",
  "updated": "2022-08-31T18:00:03.000Z",
  "title": "1-form symmetry versus large N QCD",
  "authors": [
    "Aleksey Cherman",
    "Theodore Jacobson",
    "Maria Neuzil"
  ],
  "comment": "38 pages, 10 figures",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th",
    "hep-lat"
  ],
  "abstract": "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.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2022-08-31T18:00:03.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "generalized global symmetries",
      "approximate",
      "generalization"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 38,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}