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Stability of the perturbative vacuum against spatial variations of the Polyakov loop

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We investigate the effective action of the Polyakov loop with spatial variations. We expand the effective action not in powers of derivatives or momenta, but in powers of variational amplitudes. At one-loop order the results suggest that the instability towards the confining vacuum may be caused by the variational terms.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0011108,
  title  = {Stability of the perturbative vacuum against spatial variations of the Polyakov loop},
  author = {Kenji Fukushima and Koichi Ohta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0011108},
  year   = {2008}
}

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13 pages, 8 Postscript figures