The dual of pure non-Abelian lattice gauge theory as a spin foam model

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00770-7zbMath1008.81506arXivhep-th/0008095WikidataQ56388373 ScholiaQ56388373MaRDI QIDQ5933093

Robert Oeckl, Hendryk Pfeiffer

Publication date: 31 May 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0008095

zbMATH Keywords

partition functions; finite-dimensional unitary representations; Wilson loops

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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