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Absence of sign problem in two-dimensional N=(2,2) super Yang-Mills on lattice

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-03-17 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We show that N=(2,2) SU(N) super Yang-Mills theory on lattice does not have sign problem in the continuum limit, that is, under the phase-quenched simulation phase of the determinant localizes to 1 and hence the phase-quench approximation becomes exact. Among several formulations, we study models by Cohen-Kaplan-Katz-Unsal (CKKU) and by Sugino. We confirm that the sign problem is absent in both models and that they converge to the identical continuum limit without fine tuning. We provide a simple explanation why previous works by other authors, which claim an existence of the sign problem, do not capture the continuum physics.

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@article{arxiv.1010.2948,
  title  = {Absence of sign problem in two-dimensional N=(2,2) super Yang-Mills on lattice},
  author = {Masanori Hanada and Issaku Kanamori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.2948},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

27 pages, 24 figures; v2: comments and references added; v3: figures on U(1) mass independence and references added, to appear in JHEP