The free energy of thick center vortices is calculated in continuum Yang-Mills theory in one-loop approximation using the proper time regularization. The vortices are represented by Abelian gauge field configurations on the torus which satisfy twisted boundary conditions.
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0412236,
title = {Free Energy of thick Center Vortices},
author = {Ch. Korn and H. Reinhardt and T. Tok},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0412236},
year = {2007}
}
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23 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables, some refences added