arXiv:hep-lat/9306007v1 8 Jun 1993 BARI - TH 145/93 Comment on “Savvidy ferromagnetic vacuum in three-dimensional lattice gauge theory”, P.R.L. 70, 2053 (1993) Paolo Cea a,b and Leonardo Cosmai b a Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Universit` a di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy and b Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy (E-mail: cea@bari.infn.it, cosmai@bari.infn.it) (June 8, 1993) Abstract We analyze SU(2) gauge theory in a constant chromomagnetic field in three dimensions. Our analysis instead of supporting the existence of a non-trivial minimum in the effective potential, corroborates the evidence of the unstable modes on the lattice. hep-lat/9306007 PACS numbers: 11.15.Ha, 11.15.Tk Typeset using REVT E X 1