title: Renormalized Polyakov loop in the deconfined phase of SU(N) gauge theory and gauge-string duality.
abstract: We use gauge-string duality to analytically evaluate the renormalized Polyakov loop in pure Yang-Mills theories. For SU(3), the result is in quite good agreement with lattice simulations for a broad temperature range.
authors.affiliation: Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster, Boltzmannstrasse 2, 85748 Garching, Germany.
authors.forename: Oleg
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authors.lastname: Andreev