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What is the effect of including additional representations in the action of a lattice gauge theory?
I'm reading Introduction to Quantum Fields on a Lattice by Jan Smit. When introducing the lattice gauge-field action as a sum over plaquettes, Smit says that in general the action should include a sum ...
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Lattice QCD and string theory
I've heard the claim that some aspects of string theory are used to improve Monte-Carlo simulations of lattice QCD, for example by people working at the LHC.
I know a bit about Monte-Carlo methods in ...
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