[19] Surface sums for lattice Yang–Mills in the large-N limit (with Sky Cao and Jasper Shogren-Knaak).
We give a sum over weighted planar surfaces formula for Wilson loop expectations in the large- limit of strongly coupled lattice Yang–Mills theory, in any dimension. The weights of each surface are simple and expressed in terms of products of signed Catalan numbers. In establishing our results, the main novelty is to convert a recursive …