Two-dimensional QCD on the sphere and on the cylinder

Details Two-dimensional QCD on the sphere and on the cylinder Two-dimensional QCD on the sphere and on the cylinder

1993-09-20

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9309107v1

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

12 pages, plain latex, DFTT 50/93

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The partition functions of QCD2 on simple surfaces admit representations in terms of exponentials of the inverse coupling, that are modular transforms of the usual character expansions. We review the construction of such a representation in the case of the cylinder, and show how it leads to a formulation of QCD2 as a $c=1$ matrix model of the Kazakov-Migdal type. The eigenvalues describe the positions of $N$ Sutherland fermions on a circle, while their discretized momenta label the representations in the corresponding character expansion. Using this language, we derive some new results: we give an alternative description of the Douglas-Kazakov phase transition on the sphere, and we argue that an analogous phase transition exists on the cylinder. We calculate the large $N$ limit of the partition function on the cylinder with boundary conditions given by semicircular distributions of eigenvalues, and we find an explicit expression for the large $N$ limit of the Itzykson-Zuber integral with the same boundary conditions. (Talk given at the ``Workshop on high energy physics and cosmology'' at Trieste, July 1993.)

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