Complex saddles in the Gross-Witten-Wadia matrix model
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-11-16 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We give an exhaustive characterization of the complex saddle point configurations of the Gross-Witten-Wadia matrix model in the large-N limit. In particular, we characterize the cases in which the saddles accumulate in one, two, or three arcs, in terms of the values of the coupling constant and of the fraction of the total unit density that is supported in one of the arcs, and derive an explicit condition for gap closing associated to nonvacuum saddles. By applying the idea of large-N instanton we also give direct analytic derivations of the weak-coupling and strong-coupling instanton actions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1610.09948,
title = {Complex saddles in the Gross-Witten-Wadia matrix model},
author = {Gabriel Álvarez and Luis Martínez Alonso and Elena Medina},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.09948},
year = {2016}
}