We determine the critical couplings and the critical exponents of the finite temperature transition in SU(2) and SU(3) pure gauge theory in (2+1) dimensions. We also measure Wilson loops at T=0 on a wide range of β values using APE smearing to improve the signal. We extract the string tension σ from a fit to large distances, including a string fluctuation term. With these two entities we calculate Tc/σ.
@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9608099,
title = {A Study of Finite Temperature Gauge Theory in (2+1) Dimensions},
author = {J. Engels and F. Karsch and E. Laermann and C. Legeland and M. Lütgemeier and B. Petersson and T. Scheideler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9608099},
year = {2009}
}
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Talk presented at LATTICE96(finite temperature), not espcrc2 style: 7 pages, 4 ps figures, 22 kB