Surface sums for lattice Yang-Mills in the large-N limit
Speaker:
Sky Cao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date and Time:
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 309, Stewart Library
Abstract:
I will discuss a formula for the large-N limit of Wilson loop expectations in lattice Yang-Mills in terms of weighted sums over planar maps. This gives an alternative formula to Chatterjee's string trajectories, and is inspired by recent work of Cao-Park-Sheffield which gave a surface-sum formula for finite-N Wilson loop expectations.
