LARGE N-PHASES OF CHIRAL QCD(2)

Authors
CRESCIMANNO M TAYLOR W
Citation
M. Crescimanno et W. Taylor, LARGE N-PHASES OF CHIRAL QCD(2), Nuclear physics. B, 437(1), 1995, pp. 3-24
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Nuclear physics. B → ACNP
ISSN journal
05503213
Volume
437
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
3 - 24
Database
ISI
SICI code
0550-3213(1995)437:1<3:LNOCQ>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
A matrix model is constructed which describes a chiral version of the large N U(N) gauge theory on a two-dimensional sphere of area A. This theory has three separate phases. The large area phase describes the a ssociated chiral string theory. An exact expression for the free energ y in the large area phase is used to derive a remarkably simple formul a for the number of topologically inequivalent covering maps of a sphe re with fixed branch points and degree n.