Comparison of SO(3) and SU(2) lattice gauge theory

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)01123-9zbMath1008.81052arXivhep-lat/0211004MaRDI QIDQ1856120

Philippe de Forcrand, Oliver Jahn

Publication date: 28 January 2003

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0211004

zbMATH Keywords

topological invariants; twisted boundary conditions; negative adjoint Polyakov loop

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

81T25: Quantum field theory on lattices

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