Partition function for the eigenvalues of the Wilson line.

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(93)90123-7MaRDI QIDQ1966085zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andreas Gocksch, Robert D. Pisarski

Publication date 5 March 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9302233

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: In a gauge theory at nonzero temperature the eigenvalues of the Wilson line form a set of gauge invariant observables. By constructing the corresponding partition function for the phases of these eigenvalues, we prove that the trivial vacuum, where the phases vanish, is a minimum of the free energy.

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