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Calculation of Wilson Loops in Two-Dimensional Yang–Mills Theories

✍ Scribed by J.M. Aroca; Yu. Kubyshin

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
364 KB
Volume
283
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-4916

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✦ Synopsis

The vacuum expectation value of the Wilson loop functional in pure Yang Mills theory on an arbitrary two-dimensional orientable manifold is studied. We consider the calculation of this quantity for the Abelian theory in the continuum case and for the arbitrary gauge group and arbitrary lattice action in the lattice case. A classification of topological sectors of the theory and the related classification of the principal fibre bundles over two-dimensional surfaces are given in terms of a cohomology group. The contribution of SU(2)-invariant connections to the vacuum expectation value of the Wilson loop variable is also analyzed and is shown to be similar to the contribution of monopoles.

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