Revisiting the deconfinement phase transition in SU(4) Yang-Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Holland, Kieran ^a   Pepe, Michele ^b   Wiese, Uwe Jens ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Lattice gauge field theories; Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 40549114970     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/041     Document Type: Article

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