Conundrum for the free energy of a holonomous gluonic plasma at cubic order
We compute the term ∼g3 in the free energy for a SU(N) gauge theory with nonzero holonomy at nonzero temperature. If the holonomy is generated kinematically by the introduction of gauge invariant sources coupled to Polyakov loops, the contribution of charged (off-diagonal) gluons to the free energy...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-04-01
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| Series: | Physics Letters B |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269320301404 |