The deconfining phase transition in D=2+1 SU(N) gauge theories

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14 March 2008

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.0803.2128

Abstract

We study the deconfining transition of SU(N) gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions for N ranging between N=2 and N=8. We confirm that the transition is second order for N4. For the more delicate case of SU(4) all our evidence points to the transition being weakly first order. After extrapolating to the continuum limit, we obtain a deconfining temperature that can be well fitted by Tc/sqrt(sigma) = 0.9026(23) + 0.880(43)/N^2 for all N.

Keywords

DECONFINING TEMPERATURE
DECONFINING TRANSITION
DECONFINING PHASE
PHASE TRANSITION
CONTINUUM LIMIT
GAUGE THEORIES
DELICATE CASE
TRANSITION
TC/SQRT

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