2004/12/20 by Ch. Korn, Korn, Ch., H. Reinhardt +4
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Superconducting Materials and Applications #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0412236
23 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables, some refences added
openalex publication_date 2004/12/20 · arxiv created 2005/08/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The free energy of thick center vortices is calculated in continuum Yang-Mills theory in one-loop approximation using the proper time regularization. The vortices are represented by Abelian gauge field configurations on the torus which satisfy twisted boundary conditions.