Volume independence for Yang-Mills fields on the twisted torus
arXiv:1406.5655 · doi:10.1142/S0217751X14450018
Abstract
We review some recent results related to the notion of volume independence in SU(N) Yang-Mills theories. The topic is discussed in the context of gauge theories living on a d-dimensional torus with twisted boundary conditions. After a brief introduction reviewing the formalism for introducing gauge fields on a torus, we discuss how volume independence arises in perturbation theory. We show how, for appropriately chosen twist tensors, perturbative results to all orders in the 't Hooft coupling depend on a specific combination of the rank of the gauge group (N) and the periods of the torus (l) given by l N^{2/d}, for d even.We discuss the well-known relation to non-commutative field theories and address certain threats to volume independence associated to the occurrence of tachyonic instabilities at one-loop order. We end by presenting some numerical results in 2+1 dimensions that extend these ideas to the non-perturbative domain.
31 pages. Review paper. Dedicated to the memory of Pierre van Baal
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