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Yang-Mills thermodynamics at low temperature

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

For the confining phase of SU(2) Yang-Mills thermodynamics we show that the asymptotic series representing the pressure is Borel summable for negative (unphysical) values of a suitably defined coupling constant. The inverse Borel transform is meromorphic except for a branch cut along the positive-real axis. The physical pressure is precisely nil at vanishing and acquires a small imaginary admixture at small temperature the latter indicating violations of thermal equilibrium (turbulences).

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0702027,
  title  = {Yang-Mills thermodynamics at low temperature},
  author = {Ralf Hofmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0702027},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

12 pages, 4 figures, v2: slight modification of text, typo removed in Eq. 18, matches published version

R2 v1 2026-07-22T15:40:44.607Z