Anisotropic Improved Gauge Actions; --Perturbative and Numerical Studies --

Abstract

The $\Lambda$ parameter on the anisotropic lattice, the spatial and temperature coupling constant $g_{\sigma}$, $g_{\tau}$ and their derivative with respaect to the the anisotropy parameter $\xi$ are studied perturbatively for the class of improved actions, which cover tree level Symanzik's, Iwasaki's and QCDTARO's improved actions. The $\eta(=g_{\tau}/g_{\sigma})$ becomes less than 1 for Iwasaki's and QCDTARO's action, which is confirmed nonperturbatively by numerical simulations. Derivatives of the coupling constants with respect to the anisotropy parameter, $\partial g_{\tau}/\partial \xi$ and $\partial g_{\sigma}/\partial \xi$, change sign for those improved actions.