`ISRN Mathematical PhysicsVolume 2012 (2012), Article ID 601749, 16 pageshttp://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/601749`
Research Article

## Center-Vortex Loops with One Self-Intersection

Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Kaiserstrasse 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

Received 7 December 2011; Accepted 1 April 2012

Academic Editors: E. Akhmedov and S. Ketov

Copyright © 2012 Julian Moosmann and Ralf Hofmann. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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