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Renormalized Polyakov Loop in the Deconfined Phase of SU(N) Gauge Theory and Gauge/String Duality

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-06-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We use gauge/string duality to analytically evaluate the renormalized Polyakov loop in pure Yang-Mills theories. For SU(3), the result is in a quite good agreement with lattice simulations for a broad temperature range.

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@article{arxiv.0903.4375,
  title  = {Renormalized Polyakov Loop in the Deconfined Phase of SU(N) Gauge Theory and Gauge/String Duality},
  author = {Oleg Andreev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.4375},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures