TY - CHAP
T1 - Deconfinement Transition and Center Symmetry
AU - Reinosa, Urko
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - This chapter introduces the basic concepts that allow one to describe the confinement/deconfinement transition in SU(N) Yang-Mills theories including the Polyakov loop, the twisted gauge transformations, and the center symmetry group that emerges after removing the redundancy associated with the (genuine) periodic gauge transformations. These ideas are first presented within a non-gauge-fixed setting. Then, a critical analysis is presented of how these considerations are impacted by the combined use of gauge fixing and approximations/modeling, this as an incentive to look for appropriate gauge fixings in subsequent chapters.
AB - This chapter introduces the basic concepts that allow one to describe the confinement/deconfinement transition in SU(N) Yang-Mills theories including the Polyakov loop, the twisted gauge transformations, and the center symmetry group that emerges after removing the redundancy associated with the (genuine) periodic gauge transformations. These ideas are first presented within a non-gauge-fixed setting. Then, a critical analysis is presented of how these considerations are impacted by the combined use of gauge fixing and approximations/modeling, this as an incentive to look for appropriate gauge fixings in subsequent chapters.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85144541764
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-11375-8_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-11375-8_3
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85144541764
T3 - Lecture Notes in Physics
SP - 37
EP - 54
BT - Lecture Notes in Physics
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
ER -