Non-Abelian Thermal Large Gauge Transformations in 2+1 Dimensions
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We discuss several different constructions of non-Abelian large gauge transformations at finite temperature. Pisarski's ansatz with even winding number is related to Hopf mappings, and we present a simple new ansatz that has any integer winding number at finite temperature.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0111146,
title = {Non-Abelian Thermal Large Gauge Transformations in 2+1 Dimensions},
author = {F. T. Brandt and Ashok Das and Gerald V. Dunne and J. Frenkel and J. C. Taylor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0111146},
year = {2008}
}
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10 pages, revtex