Vortices and confinement in hot and cold D = 2 + 1 gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 21-25

  Hart, Alistair ^a   Lucini, Biagio ^b   Teper, Mike ^b   Schram, Zsolt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 7044232114     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/06/040     Document Type: Article

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