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Yang-Mills thermodynamics: The confining phase

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We summarize recent nonperturbative results obtained for the thermodynamics of an SU(2) and an SU(3) Yang-Mills theory being in its confining (center) phase. This phase is associated with a dynamical breaking of the local magnetic center symmetry. Emphasis is put on an explanation of the involved concepts.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0508212,
  title  = {Yang-Mills thermodynamics: The confining phase},
  author = {Ralf Hofmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0508212},
  year   = {2007}
}

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12 pages, 3 figures, v2: some typos corrected

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