# Abelian dominance and adjoint color sources

## TL;DR

This paper investigates the concept of abelian dominance in SU(2) gauge theory, demonstrating its basis for fundamental sources and exploring its potential extension to adjoint sources within the same framework.

## Contribution

It shows abelian dominance arises from properties of maximal abelian projected SU(2) gauge theory and examines the possibility of similar dominance for adjoint sources.

## Key findings

- Abelian dominance for fundamental sources is derived from specific properties of the gauge theory.
- The framework allows exploration of abelian dominance analogs for adjoint sources.
- Potential extension of abelian dominance concept to adjoint representation sources.

## Abstract

Abelian dominance in the case of color sources in the fundamental representation is shown to follow from certain properties of maximal abelian projected SU(2) gauge theory. The possibility of having an analog of abelian dominance in the case of adjoint representation sources is addressed in the same framework.