  Recently it has been found that in a noncompact lattice regularization of the
SU(2) gauge theory the physical volume is larger than in the Wilson theory with
the same number of sites. In its original formulation the noncompact
regularization is directly applicable to U(n) theories for any n and to SU(n)
theories for n=2. In this paper we extend it to SU(n) for any n and investigate
some of its properties.
