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Vacuum structure of gauge theory on lattice with two parallel plaquette action

K. Farakos, G. K. Savvidy

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/9904014

Abstract

We perform Monte Carlo simulations of a lattice gauge system with an action which contains two parallel plaquettes. The action is defined as a product of gauge group variables over two parallel plaquettes belonging to a given three-dimensional cube. The peculiar property of this system is that it has strong degeneracy of the vacuum state inherited from corresponding gonihedric Z2 gauge spin system. These vacuua are well separated and can not be connected by a gauge transformation. We measure different observables in these vacuua and compare their properties.

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