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A covariant variational approach to Yang-Mills Theory at finite temperatures

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-08-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We extend the covariant variational approach for SU(N) Yang-Mills theory in Landau gauge to non-zero temperatures. The renormalization of the zero-temperature case is revisited and it is shown that the same counterterms are sufficient to render the low-order Green's function finite at non-zero temperature. We compute the ghost and gluon propagator numerically and show that it agrees in all qualitative respects with the results of high-precision lattice calculations.

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@article{arxiv.1503.06993,
  title  = {A covariant variational approach to Yang-Mills Theory at finite temperatures},
  author = {Markus Quandt and Hugo Reinhardt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.06993},
  year   = {2015}
}

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