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Carsten Peterson

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Stochastic confinement and dimensional reduction. (I). Four-dimensional SU(2) lattice gauge theory

Author

  • J. Ambjørn
  • P. Olesen
  • C. Peterson

Summary, in English

By Monte Carlo calculations on a 124 lattice we investigate four-dimensional SU(2) lattice gauge theory with respect to the conjecture that at large distances this theory reduces approximately to two-dimensional SU(2) lattice gauge theory. We find good numerical evidence for this conjecture. As a by-product we also measure the SU(2) string tension and find reasonable agreement with scaling. The "adjoint string tension" is also found to have a reasonable scaling behaviour.

Department/s

  • Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics - Has been reorganised

Publishing year

1984-09-10

Language

English

Pages

189-212

Publication/Series

Nuclear Physics, Section B

Volume

240

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

North-Holland

Topic

  • Mathematics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0550-3213