Speaker
Richard Lau
(University of Oxford)
Description
We present our current results for the deconfining temperatures in SO(N) gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions. SO(2N) theories may help us to understand QCD at finite chemical potential since there is a large-N orbifold equivalence between SO(2N) QCD-like theories and SU(N) QCD and SO(2N) theories do not have the sign problem present in QCD. We show that the deconfining temperatures in these two theories match at the large-N limit. We also present results for SO(2N+1) gauge theories and compare results for SO(6) with SU(4) gauge theories, which have the same Lie algebras but different centres.
Primary authors
Michael Teper
(University of Oxford)
Richard Lau
(University of Oxford)
