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Temporal correlator in YM23 and reflection-positivity violation

A. R. Taurines, A. Cucchieri, T. Mendes

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/0408022

Abstract

We consider numerical data for the lattice Landau gluon propagator obtained at very large lattice volumes in three-dimensional pure SU(2) Yang-Mills gauge theory (YM23). We find that the temporal correlator C(t) shows an oscillatory pattern and is negative for several values of t. This is an explicit violation of reflection positivity and can be related to gluon confinement. We also obtain a good fit for this quantity in the whole time interval using a sum of Stingl-like propagators.

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