We study the phase diagram of 5-dimensional SU(2) Yang-Mills theory on the lattice. We consider two extensions of the fundamental plaquette Wilson action in the search for the continuous phase transition suggested by the 4 + ϵ expansion. The extensions correspond to new terms in the action: i) a unit size plaquette in the adjoint representation or ii) a two-unit sided square plaquette in the fundamental representation. We use Monte Carlo to sample the first and second derivative of the entropy near the confinement phase transition, with lattices up to 125. While we exclude the presence of a second order phase transition in the parameter space we sampled for model i), our data is not conclusive in some regions of the parameter space of model ii).
In this paper an extension of the spectral Lanczos' tau method to systems of nonlinear integro-differential equations is proposed. This extension includes (i) linearization coefficients of orthogonal polynomials products issued from nonlinear terms and (ii) recursive relations to implement matrix inversion whenever a polynomial change of basis is required and (iii) orthogonal polynomial evaluations directly on the orthogonal basis. All these improvements ensure numerical stability and accuracy in the approximate solution. Exposed in detail, this novel approach is able to significantly outperform numerical approximations with other methods as well as different tau implementations. Numerical results on a set of problems illustrate the impact of the mathematical techniques introduced.
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