Ground-state wave-functional in (2+1)-dimensional Yang-Mills theory: abelian limit, spectrum and robustness

2007/02/20 by Lionel Brits
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Abelian group #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Gauge theory #Glueball #Ground state #Limit (mathematics) #Mathematical analysis #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Pure mathematics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Robustness (evolution) #Spectrum (functional analysis) #Yang–Mills theory #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2007/05/012

published as JHEP 0705:012,2007 · 9 pages

arxiv created 2007/02/20 · openalex publication_date 2007/05/08 · arxiv updated 2010/10/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We compute the glueball spectrum in (2+1)-dimensional Yang-Mills theory by analyzing correlators of the Leigh-Minic-Yelnikov ground-state wave-functional in the Abelian limit. The contribution of the WZW measure is treated by a controlled approximation and the resulting spectrum is shown to reduce to that obtained by Leigh et al., at large momentum.

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