title: θ dependence of the deconfinement temperature in Yang-Mills theories.
abstract: We determine the θ dependence of the deconfinement temperature of SU(3) pure gauge theory, finding that it decreases in the presence of a topological θ term. We do that by performing lattice simulations at imaginary θ, then exploiting analytic continuation. We also give an estimate of such dependence in the limit of a large number of colors N and compare it with our numerical results.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Pisa and INFN-Sezione di Pisa, Italy. delia@df.unipi.it
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: D'Elia
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Negro