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On the limiting procedure by which $SDiff(T^2)$ and $SU(\infty)$ are associated

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

There have been various attempts to identify groups of area-preserving diffeomorphisms of 2-dimensional manifolds with limits of SU(N) as NN\to\infty. We discuss the particularly simple case where the manifold concerned is the two-dimensional torus T2T^2 and argue that the limit, even in the basis commonly used, is ill-behaved and that the large-N limit of SU(N) is much larger than SDiff(T2)SDiff(T^2).

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0405002,
  title  = {On the limiting procedure by which $SDiff(T^2)$ and $SU(\infty)$ are associated},
  author = {John Swain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0405002},
  year   = {2007}
}