NOTATION

• s -- spatial
• t -- temporal
• -- integrated autocorrelation time
• -- correlation length
• -- spatial lattice spacing
• -- temporal lattice spacing
• -- anisotropy ratio
• -- tadpole-improved mean spatial link
• -- tadpole-improved mean temporal link
• -- lattice action without doublers
• Pss -- spatial plaquette
• Pst -- temporal plaquette
• Rss -- spatial rectangle
• Rst1 -- temporal rectangle of type-I
• Rst2 -- temporal rectangle of type-II
• Act -- average gluon action
• H-B -- heatbath
• Over. -- overrelaxation
• MC -- Monte Carlo