Confinement, chiral symmetry, and the lattice

Abstract

Two crucial properties of QCD, confinement and chiral symmetry breaking, cannot be understood within the context of conventional Feynman perturbation theory. Non-perturbative phenomena enter the theory in a fundamental way at both the classical and quantum level. Over the years a coherent qualitative picture of the interplay between chiral symmetry, quantum mechanical anomalies, and the lattice has emerged and is reviewed here.

126 pages, 36 figures. Revision corrects additional typos and renumbers equations to be more consistent with the published version