Absence of a deconfining phase transition in SU(2) gauge theory
- 15 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 25 (2), 606-609
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.25.606
Abstract
We present an argument showing the absence of a phase transition in SU(2) gauge theory. The argument proceeds by an estimate on the electric flux-free energy which, using a conjectured inequality, is found to exhibit confining behavior for arbitrary bare coupling, for .
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