Permanent Confinement in Four-Dimensional Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theory
- 21 March 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 50 (12), 885-888
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.50.885
Abstract
It is shown that the standard SU(2) lattice gauge theory is in a confining phase for all values of the coupling, , and . The main idea is to show that the electricflux free energy is bounded by expressions resulting from approximate (Migdal-Kadanoff) renormalization-group transformations.
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