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Given a regular compact set $E$ in the complex plane, a unit measure $\mu$ supported by $\partial E,$ a triangular point set $\beta := \{\{\beta_{n,k}\}_{k=1}^n\}_{n=1}^{\infty},\beta\subset \partial E$ and a function $f$, holomorphic on…
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We present updated results for the non-perturbative $\beta$-function of SU(3) gauge theories with $N_f = 12$ or 10 massless flavors in the fundamental rep or $N_f = 2$ in the sextet rep, measured with staggered fermions. New data at finer…
The dynamics with an infrared stable fixed point in the conformal window in QCD like theories (with a relatively large number of fermion flavors) is studied. The dependence of masses of colorless bound states on a bare fermion mass is…
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