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Determining the order of SU(3) deconfining phase transition

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

An effective spin model for the finite temperature non-abelian lattice gauge theory is derived. The outcome is the surprising result that only nearest neighbor coupling survives, thus confirming the well known numerical results that the deconfining phase transition of the (3+1)-dimensional SU(3)SU(3) pure gauge theory is first order.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9308023,
  title  = {Determining the order of SU(3) deconfining phase transition},
  author = {Z. K. Zhu and D. H Feng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9308023},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Latex 9 pages DU-TH-003