Index theorem and universality properties of the low-lying eigenvalues of improved staggered quarks

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 24, 2004, Pages

  Follana, E ^a   Hart, A ^b   Davies, C T H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUONS; INDEX THEOREM; QCD; STAGGERED QUARKS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FERMIONS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; THEOREM PROVING; TOPOLOGY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 37649030525     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.241601     Document Type: Article

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