LARGE-N GAUGE-THEORY - EXPANSIONS AND TRANSITIONS

被引:23
作者
DOUGLAS, MR
机构
[1] Dept. of Physics, Astronomy Rutgers University Piscataway
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0920-5632(95)00431-8
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We use solvable two-dimensional gauge theories to illustrate the issues in relating large N gauge theory to string theory. We also give an introduction to recent mathematical work which allows constructing master fields for higher dimensional large N theories. We illustrate this with a new derivation of the Hopf equation governing the evolution of the spectral density in matrix quantum mechanics.
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页码:66 / 91
页数:26
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