On the behaviour of spatial Wilson loops in the high temperature phase of L
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The behaviour of the space-like string tension in the high temperature phase is studied. Data obtained in the Z2 gauge model in (2+1) dimensions are compared with predictions of a simple model of a fluctuating flux tube with finite thickness. It is shown that in the high temperature phase contributions coming from the fluctuations of the flux tube vanish. As a consequence we also show that in (2+1) dimensional gauge theories the thickness of the flux tube coincides with the inverse of the deconfinement temperature. e–mail: caselle, gliozzi, vinti @to.infn.it e–mail: fiore @cosenza.infn.it e–mail: guaita @to.infn.it
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