Numerical evidence for monopoles in 3-dimensional Yang-Mills theory

Abstract

Recently Anishetty, Majumdar and Sharatchandra have proposed a way of characterizing topologically non-trivial configurations for 2+1 dimensional Yang-Mills theory in a local and manifestly gauge invariant manner. In this paper paper we develop criteria to locate such objects in lattice gauge theory and find them in numerical simulations.

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures and 2 tables. Revtex. No changes in text. Problem with printing of figure fixed. To be published in PL-B