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From Loops to Surfaces

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2011-01-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The generating function for all antisymmetric characters of a Wilson loop matrix in SU(N) Yang Mills theory is the partition function of a fermion living on the curve describing the loop. This generalizes to fermion subsystems living on higher dimensional submanifolds, for example, surfaces. This write-up also contains some extra background, in response to some questions raised during the oral presentation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1009.3915,
  title  = {From Loops to Surfaces},
  author = {H. Neuberger and R. Narayanan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.3915},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

6 pages, talk given at the XXVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2010), June 14-19 2010, Villasimius, Italy

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