Towards Abelian-like formulation of the dual gluodynamics Original Research Article

We consider gluodynamics in case when both color and magnetic charges are present. We discuss first short distance physics, where only the fundamental |Qm|=1 monopoles introduced via the ʹt Hooft loop can be considered consistently. We show that at short distances the external monopoles interact as pure Abelian objects. This result can be reproduced by a Zwanziger-type Lagrangian with an Abelian dual gluon and ordinary gluons in an adjoint representation. We introduce also an effective dual gluodynamics which might be a valid approximation at distances where the monopoles |Qm|=2 can be considered as point-like as well. Assuming the monopole condensation we arrive at a model which is reminiscent in some respect of the Abelian Higgs model but, unlike the latter leaves space for the Casimir scaling.