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Large N behaviour of the two-dimensional Yang–Mills partition function

Part of: Abstract harmonic analysis Quantum field theory; related classical field theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2021

Thibaut Lemoine
Thibaut Lemoine*
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Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, UMR 7501, Université de Strasbourg et CNRS, 7 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg, France Email: thibaut.lemoine@unistra.fr
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Abstract

We compute the large N limit of the partition function of the Euclidean Yang–Mills measure on orientable compact surfaces with genus $g\geqslant 1$ and non-orientable compact surfaces with genus $g\geqslant 2$, with structure group the unitary group ${\mathrm U}(N)$ or special unitary group ${\mathrm{SU}}(N)$. Our proofs are based on asymptotic representation theory: more specifically, we control the dimension and Casimir number of irreducible representations of ${\mathrm U}(N)$ and ${\mathrm{SU}}(N)$ when N tends to infinity. Our main technical tool, involving ‘almost flat’ Young diagram, makes rigorous the arguments used by Gross and Taylor (1993, Nuclear Phys. B 400(1–3) 181–208) in the setting of QCD, and in some cases, we recover formulae given by Douglas (1995, Quantum Field Theory and String Theory (Cargèse, 1993), Vol. 328 of NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series B: Physics, Plenum, New York, pp. 119–135) and Rusakov (1993, Phys. Lett. B 303(1) 95–98).

Keywords

Two-dimensional Yang–Mills theorylarge N limitasymptotic representation theoryWitten zeta functionalmost flat highest weights

MSC classification

Primary: 43A75: Analysis on specific compact groups 81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , January 2022 , pp. 144 - 165
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