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Confinement Artifacts in the U(1) and SU(2) Compact Lattice Gauge Theories

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We identify the artifact that causes confinement at strong coupling in compact U(1) lattice gauge theory and show that most of the string tension in compact SU(2) lattice gauge theory is due to plaquettes of negative trace.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9801009,
  title  = {Confinement Artifacts in the U(1) and SU(2) Compact Lattice Gauge Theories},
  author = {Kevin Cahill and Gary Herling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9801009},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

15 pages, 5 figures, latex; minor changes