%0 Journal Article
%T Laplacian Center Vortices
%A Ph. de Forcrand
%A M. Pepe
%J Physics
%D 2000
%I arXiv
%X I present a unified picture of center vortices and Abelian monopoles. Both appear as local gauge ambiguities in the Laplacian Center Gauge. This gauge is constructed for a general SU(N) theory. Numerical evidence is presented, for SU(2) and SU(3), that the projected $Z_N$ theory confines with a string tension similar to the non-Abelian one.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0008013v1