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The puzzling infrared of QCD: The landau gauge case

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In this contribution we present a short overview of the status of non-perturbative investigations of Landau gauge gluon and ghost propagators in Yang-Mills theories with special emphasis on lattice computations in the infrared region.

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Müller-Preussker, M. The puzzling infrared of QCD: The landau gauge case. Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 272, 191–200 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0081543811010184

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