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A note on the Loop Formula for the fermionic determinant

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2016-08-03 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

A formula expressing the fermionic determinant as an infinite product of smaller determinants is derived and discussed. These smaller determinants are of a fixed size, independent of the size of the lattice and are indexed by loops of increasing length.

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@article{arxiv.1512.07480,
  title  = {A note on the Loop Formula for the fermionic determinant},
  author = {Erhard Seiler and Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.07480},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Version 3: 22 pages; Introduction and Conclusions somewhat expanded; some errors corrected

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