https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202431400025
Topology of the large-N expansion in SU(N) Yang-Mills theory and spin-statistics theorem
1 Physics Department, INFN Roma1, Piazzale A. Moro 2, Roma, I-00185, Italy
2 Physics Department, “Sapienza” University of Rome and INFN Roma1, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Roma, Italy
* e-mail: marco.bochicchio@roma1.infn.it
** e-mail: mauro.papinutto@roma1.infn.it
*** e-mail: francesco.scardino@roma1.infn.it
Published online: 10 December 2024
Recently, we computed the generating functional of Euclidean asymptotic correlators at short-distance of single-trace twist-2 operators in large-N SU(N) Yang-Mills (YM) theory to the leading-nonplanar order. Remarkably, it has the structure of the logarithm of a functional determinant, but with the sign opposite to the one arising from the spin-statistics theorem for the glueballs. To solve the sign puzzle, we reconsider the proof that in ’t Hooft large-N expansion of YM theory the leading-nonplanar contribution to the generating functional consists of the sum over punctures of n-punctured tori. We discover that for twist-2 operators it contains – in addition to the n-punctured tori – the normalization of tori with 1 ≤ p ≤ n pinches and n − p punctures. Once the existence of the new sector is taken into account, the violation of the spin-statistics theorem disappears. Besides, the new sector contributes trivially to the nonperturbative S matrix because – for example – the n-pinched torus represents nonperturbatively a loop of n glueball propagators with no external leg. This opens the way for an exact solution limited to the new sector that may be solvable thanks to the vanishing S matrix.
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