Thermodynamics of SU(N) Yang-Mills theories in 2 + 1 dimensions I - The confining phase

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Caselle, Michele ^a   Castagnin, Luca ^b   Feo, Alessandra ^a   Gliozzi, Ferdinando ^a   Panero, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; Field theories in lower dimensions; Lattice gauge field theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053155606     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2011)142     Document Type: Article

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