ON THE RENORMALIZATION OF THE POLYAKOV LOOP
Supported in part by the DFG under grant FOR 339/1-2.
We discuss a non-perturbative renormalization of n-point Polyakov loop correlation functions by explicitly introducing a renormalization constant for the Polyakov loop operator on a lattice deduced from the short distance properties of 2-pint correlators. We calculate this constant for the SU(3) gauge theory.