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The thermal instanton determinant in compact form

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-12-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The thermal instanton determinant for the gauge group SU(2)SU(2) can be reduced to a form involving two simple functions. Various boundary conditions can easily incorporated. Only a two dimensional integral has to be done numerically. As an example we compute the contribution to the free energy of N=1\mathcal{N}=1 theory.

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@article{arxiv.1406.6911,
  title  = {The thermal instanton determinant in compact form},
  author = {Chris. P. Korthals Altes and Alfonso Sastre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.6911},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

26 pages, 2 figures. This version contains a number of cosmetic improvements of the version appearing in PRD

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