What are the confining field configurations of strong-coupling lattice gauge theory?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1-17

  Faber, Manfried ^a   Greensite, Jeff ^b,d   Olejník, Štefan ^c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confinement; Lattice Gauge Field Theories; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Strong Coupling Expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 7044223129     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/06/041     Document Type: Article

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