Gross-Witten-Wadia transition in a matrix model of deconfinement
Gross-Witten-Wadia transition in a matrix model of deconfinement
We study the deconfining phase transition at nonzero temperature in a $SU(N)$ gauge theory, using a matrix model which was analyzed previously at small $N$. We show that the model is soluble at infinite $N$, and exhibits a Gross-Witten-Wadia transition. In some ways, the deconfining phase transition is of first …