Am I doing something wrong? Is the value of 0.56 correct?
I would be very grateful to anyone who can answer this question.
M.
P.S.: The paper in question is: “Wilson-Polyakov Loop at Finite Temperature in Large N Gauge Theory and Anti-de Sitter Supergravity”.
Published in Nucl.Phys; Paper on Arxiv; has over 200 citations.
which is not quite what the paper says. I also noticed that the paper is using K and E to denote the complete elliptic integrals of the first and second kind respectively. Unfortunately elliptic integrals can have different notations depending on whose definition is being used. In particular Mathematica (and Abramowitz and Stegun) uses:
K (m)=\int _0^{\pi/2}\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-m \sin^2\theta}} d \theta
while some others use:
K (m)=\int _0^{\pi/2}\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-m^2 \sin^2\theta}} d \theta
I assumed that the difference you get is likely due to this, so I tested it (note the squared argument now):
For clarity of course, I would recommend contacting the authors to determine which definition of the elliptic integrals they used (it would have been nice if they included to reference for it).
that gives 0.59907, which is consistent in part with the manuscript Eq. (36) which says that it equals the expression
Sqrt[2] Pi^(3/2)/(Gamma[1/4])^2 // N
which is also 0.59907. This is already closer to the value of 0.56 that they use in the manuscript.
I see that in the paper that was published in 1998 in Nuclear Physics B:
S. Rey et all, “Wilson-Polyakov Loop at Finite Temperature in Large N Gauge Theory and Anti-de Sitter Supergravity”, Nuclear Physics B 527 (1998), 171- 186
they also give a numerical value of 0.56.
I am not sure whether this goes in the right direction or not; and/or whether it helps.