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Mathematical Quantum Yang—Mills Theory Revisited II: Mass without Mass

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Massless Dirac equation for spinor multiplets is minimally coupled with a unitary representation of an arbitrary compact semisimple gauge group. The spectrum of the quantized coupled Dirac Hamiltonian has a positive mass gap running along the classical energy scale.

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Dynin, A. Mathematical Quantum Yang—Mills Theory Revisited II: Mass without Mass. Russ. J. Math. Phys. 27, 22–30 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1061920820010033

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