Quantum stability of non-linear wave type solutions with intrinsic mass parameter in QCD

Abstract

The problem of existence of a stable vacuum field in a pure quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is revised. Our approach is based on using classical stationary non-linear wave type solutions with intrinsic mass scale parameter. Such solutions can be treated as quantum mechanical wave functions describing massive spinless states in quantum theory. We verify whether non-linear wave type solutions can form a stable vacuum field background within the framework of effective action formalism. We demonstrate that there is a special class of stationary generalized Wu-Yang monopole solutions which are stable against quantum gluon fluctuations.

13 pages, 7 figures, final version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D, minor corrections