Renormalization of Polyakov loops in different representations and the large-N limit

Abstract

We study the renormalization of Polyakov loops in different irreducible representations of SU(N) Yang-Mills theories at finite temperature, and investigate their behavior in the large-N limit.

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, talk presented at the 29th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory "Lattice 2011" (10-16 July 2011, Squaw Valley, CA, USA); v2: added references