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Dynamical approach to area law for lattice Yang-Mills

Probability 2025-09-30 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this note, we observe that the dynamical approach to lattice Yang-Mills set forth in [SZZ23] may also be applied to prove Wilson's area law in the 't Hooft regime of parameters. The main point is to verify the mass gap condition from [DF80], from which area law directly follows. Our results apply for gauge groups G{U(N),SU(N),SO(2N)}G \in \{\mathrm{U}(N), \mathrm{SU}(N), \mathrm{SO}(2N)\}, which all have nontrivial center (which is one of the key assumptions in [DF80]).

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@article{arxiv.2509.04688,
  title  = {Dynamical approach to area law for lattice Yang-Mills},
  author = {Sky Cao and Ron Nissim and Scott Sheffield},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.04688},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

8 pages. Minor revisions. Submitted