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Centre vortices and their friends
P. W. Stephenson
We report two probes of centre vortices in pure SU(2). First, we attempt to generate plaquette-size Z(2) vortices in a quasi-random way to compare the structure with those of proje…
Breaking of the adjoint string in 2+1 dimensions
P. W. Stephenson
The roughly linear rise of the potential found between adjoint sources in SU(N) in lattice simulations is expected to saturate into a state of two `gluelumps' due to gluonic screen…
Putting centre dominance under the microscope
P. W. Stephenson
We make various short points on the phenomenon of centre dominance in SU(2). The Z(2) dominance seen in Wilson loops is related to the loop distribution and to half-odd-integer rep…
Wilson loop distributions, higher representations and centre dominance in SU(2)
P. W. Stephenson
To help understand the centre dominance picture of confinement, we look at Wilson loop distributions in pure SU(2) lattice gauge theory. A strong coupling approximation for the dis…
Physical and unphysical effects in the mixed SU(2)/SO(3) gauge theory
P. W. Stephenson
We investigate possible problems with universality in lattice gauge theory where a mixed fundamental SU(2) and SO(3)-invariant gauge group is used: the (second order) finite temper…
New results from mixed-action lattice gauge theory
Peter Stephenson
We extend and attempt to clarify recent results which showed possible problems for universality for the gauge group SU(2). We suggest that the presence of artifacts actually distor…