[Submitted on 22 Nov 2019] (cross-list from hep-th)
Conundrum for the free energy of a holonomous gluonic plasma at cubic order
Christiaan P. Korthals Altes🇫🇷 · Hiromichi Nishimura🇯🇵 · Robert D. Pisarski🇺🇸 · Vladimir V. Skokov🇺🇸
We compute the term in the free energy for a gauge theory with nonzero holonomy at nonzero temperature. If the holonomy is generated kinematically by the introduction of gauge invariant sources coupled to Polyakov loops, the contribution of charged (off-diagonal) gluons to the free energy at order , , is singular: without holonomy, but when the holonomy is nonzero, even infinitesimally. We show that the absence of the charged gluon contribution is required by gauge invariance alone and is therefore a universal feature.
- Comments:
- 14 pages
- Subjects:
- High Energy Physics — Theory (hep-th); High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
- arXiv:
- 1911.10209 [pdf]