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Questions on how Wilson loops relate to field & charge conservation, and lattice QFT
The path-ordered exponential from which the Wilson loop is traced is, crudely,
$$ \prod (I+ A_\alpha dx^\alpha) = \mathcal{P}\,\mathrm{exp}(i \oint A_\alpha dx^\alpha )$$
which returns a matrix $\...