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Solving Pure Yang Mills in 2+1 Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We analytically compute the spectrum of the spin zero glueballs in the planar limit of pure Yang-Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions. The new ingredient is provided by our computation of a new non-trivial form of the ground state wave-functional. The mass spectrum of the theory is determined by the zeroes of Bessel functions, and the agreement with large N lattice data is excellent.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0512111,
  title  = {Solving Pure Yang Mills in 2+1 Dimensions},
  author = {Robert G. Leigh and Djordje Minic and Alexandr Yelnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0512111},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 page letter; version to appear in Physical Review Letters

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