Large-N volume independence in conformal and confining gauge theories

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2010)030MaRDI QIDQ2248181zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mithat Ünsal, Laurence G. Yaffe

Publication date 30 June 2014

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.2101

zbMATH Keywords

1/N expansionlattice QCDnonperturbative effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

Abstract: Consequences of large $N$ volume independence are examined in conformal and confining gauge theories. In the large $N$ limit, gauge theories compactified on $R^{d-k}imes(S^1{)}^k$ are independent of the $S^1$ radii, provided the theory has unbroken center symmetry. In particular, this implies that a large $N$ gauge theory which, on $R^d$, flows to an IR fixed point, retains the infinite correlation length and other scale invariant properties of the decompactified theory even when compactified on $R^{d-k}imes(S^1{)}^k$. In other words, finite volume effects are $1/N$ suppressed. In lattice formulations of vector-like theories, this implies that numerical studies to determine the boundary between confined and conformal phases may be performed on one-site lattice models. In $N=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, the center symmetry realization is a matter of choice: the theory on $R^{4-k}imes(S^1{)}^k$ has a moduli space which contains points with all possible realizations of center symmetry. Large $N$ QCD with massive adjoint fermions and one or two compactified dimensions has a rich phase structure with an infinite number of phase transitions coalescing in the zero radius limit.

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