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Charge Screening and Confinement in Hot 3-D QED
G. Grignani, G. Semenoff, P. Sodano +1
We examine the possibility of a confinement-deconfinement phase transition at finite temperature in both parity invariant and topologically massive three-dimensional quantum electr…
Conformal Motions and the Duistermaat-Heckman Integration Formula
L. D. Paniak, G. W. Semenoff, R. J. Szabo
We derive a geometric integration formula for the partition function of a classical dynamical system and use it to show that corrections to the WKB approximation vanish for any Ham…
Gauged Yukawa Matrix Models and 2-Dimensional Lattice Theories
H. Hamidian, S. Jaimungal, G. W. Semenoff +2
We argue that chiral symmetry breaking in three dimensional QCD can be identified with Néel order in 2-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets. When operators which drive the chiral t…
Confinement-Deconfinement Transition in 3-Dimensional QED
G. Grignani, G. Semenoff, P. Sodano
We argue that, at finite temperature, parity invariant non-compact electrodynamics with massive electrons in 2+1 dimensions can exist in both confined and deconfined phases. We sho…
Polyakov Loops in 2D QCD
G. Grignani, G. Semenoff, P. Sodano
We discuss SU(N) gluo-dynamics at finite temperature and on a spatial circle. We show that the effective action for the Polyakov Loop operator is a one dimensional gauged SU(N) pri…
Phase Transitions and Mass Generation in 2+1 Dimensions
G. W. Semenoff, P. Suranyi, L. C. R. Wijewardhana
The possibility that the epsilon expansion can predict the order of phase transitions in three dimensional field theories is examined. For a Hermitean matrix-valued order parameter…