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Confinement of static quarks in two dimensional lattice gauge theories

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In two dimensional Higgs models on a lattice with Abelian or Nonabelian compact gauge group, fractional static charges are always confined.

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Mack, G. Confinement of static quarks in two dimensional lattice gauge theories. Commun.Math. Phys. 65, 91–96 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01940962

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