Existence and robustness of treeon hubs in SU(3) flux configurations

Establish whether the hubs where three unit triality flux tubes meet (treeons) in pure SU(3) gauge theory are robust emergent structures that occur generically across diverse static source configurations, and characterize their universal properties if they exist.

Background

The author introduces ‘treeons’ as hubs formed by three unit triality flux tubes in pure-glue SU(3), motivated by lattice visualizations of flux-tube networks in configurations of three color-triplet sources. While numerical studies suggest such structures, their generality and characteristic properties across configurations are not fully confirmed.

Clarifying whether treeons are robust and possess universal features would deepen our understanding of flux organization and could inform effective models of baryonic flux networks.