TY - JOUR A1 - Langelage, Jens A1 - Lottini, Stefano A1 - Philipsen, Owe T1 - Effective Polyakov-loop theory for pure Yang-Mills from strong coupling expansion T2 - Proceedings of Science ; The XXVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, June 14-19, 2010, Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy N2 - Lattice Yang-Mills theories at finite temperature can be mapped onto effective 3d spin systems, thus facilitating their numerical investigation. Using strong-coupling expansions we derive effective actions for Polyakov loops in the SU(2) and SU(3) cases and investigate the effect of higher order corrections. Once a formulation is obtained which allows for Monte Carlo analysis, the nature of the phase transition in both classes of models is investigated numerically, and the results are then used to predict – with an accuracy within a few percent – the deconfinement point in the original 4d Yang-Mills pure gauge theories, for a series of values of Nt at once. Y1 - 2010 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/20409 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-52157 SN - 1824-8039 N1 - Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence. http://pos.sissa.it/ N1 - The XXVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, June 14-19, 2010, Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy IS - (Lattice 2010)196 PB - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati CY - Trieste ER -