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The SU(N) Wilson Loop Average in 2 Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v2

Abstract

We solve explicitly a closed, linear loop equation for the SU(2) Wilson loop average on a two-dimensional plane and generalize the solution to the case of the SU(N) Wilson loop average with an arbitrary closed contour. Furthermore, the flat space solution is generalized to any two-dimensional manifold for the SU(2) Wilson loop average and to any two-dimensional manifold of genus 0 for the SU(N) Wilson loop average.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9306084,
  title  = {The SU(N) Wilson Loop Average in 2 Dimensions},
  author = {Esa Karjalainen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9306084},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

20p. LaTex, typos and some factors of N corrected