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1Rutgers University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA. lohmayer@physics.rutgers.edu
Abstract:
Using methods of numerical lattice gauge theory we show that, in the limit of a large number of colors, properly regularized Wilson loops have an eigenvalue distribution which changes nonanalytically as the overall size of the loop is increased. This establishes a large-N phase transition in continuum planar gauge theory, a fact whose precise implications remain to be worked out.
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