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The curious case of large-N expansions on a (pseudo)sphere

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-02-11 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We elucidate the large-N dynamics of one-dimensional sigma models with spherical and hyperbolic target spaces and find a duality between the Lagrange multiplier and the angular momentum. In the hyperbolic model we propose a new class of operators based on the irreducible representations of hyperbolic space. We also uncover unexpected zero modes which lead to the double scaling of the 1/N expansion and explore these modes using Gelfand-Dikiy equations.

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@article{arxiv.1412.1437,
  title  = {The curious case of large-N expansions on a (pseudo)sphere},
  author = {Alexander M. Polyakov and Zain H. Saleem and James Stokes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.1437},
  year   = {2015}
}

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18 pages, 3 figures