Tachyonic instabilities in 2 + 1 dimensional Yang–Mills theory and its connection to number theory

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA7346MaRDI QIDQ5348325zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fernando Chamizo, A. González-Arroyo

Publication date 15 August 2017

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.07972

zbMATH Keywords

Diophantine approximationflux through toruslarge \(N\) gauge theoriestwisted boundary conditionsvolume independence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation to algebraic numbers (11J68) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We consider the $2+1$ dimensional Yang-Mills theory with gauge group $extSU(N)$ on a flat 2-torus under twisted boundary conditions. We study the possibility of phase transitions (tachyonic instabilities) when $N$ and the volume vary and certain chromomagnetic flux associated to the topology of the bundle can be adjusted. Under natural assumptions about how to match the perturbative regime and the expected confinement, we prove that the absence of tachyonic instabilities is related to some problems in number theory, namely the Diophantine approximation of irreducible fractions by other fractions of smaller denominator.

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