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We argue that the phase transition which separates the low-temperature confining phase from the high-temperature nonconfining phase in the SU(3) gauge theory (without quarks) is first order.Received 19 April 1982DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.26.963©1982 American Physical Society
Yaffe et al. (Sun,) studied this question.