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The Wilson loop in the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble

Mathematical Physics 2016-05-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

Using the supersymmetric formalism we compute exactly at finite NN the expectation of the Wilson loop in the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble and derive an exact formula for the spectral density at finite NN. We obtain the same result by a second method relying on enumerative combinatorics and show that it leads to a novel proof of the Harer-Zagier series formula.

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@article{arxiv.1604.08856,
  title  = {The Wilson loop in the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble},
  author = {Razvan Gurau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.08856},
  year   = {2016}
}

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