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Finite temperature SU(2) lattice gauge theory

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We discuss SU(2) lattice gauge theories at non-zero temperature and prove several rigorous results including i) the absence of confinement for sufficiently high temperature in the pure gauge theory, and ii) the absence of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking for sufficiently high temperature in the theory with massless fundamental representation fermions.

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  1. Physics Department, University of California, 90024, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    E. T. Tomboulis

  2. Physics Department, Princeton University, 08544, Princeton, NJ, USA

    L. G. Yaffe

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Tomboulis, E.T., Yaffe, L.G. Finite temperature SU(2) lattice gauge theory. Commun.Math. Phys. 100, 313–341 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01206134

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