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We analyze the partition function of two dimensional Yang-Mills theory on a family of surfaces of infinite genus. These surfaces have a recursive structure, which was used by one of us to compute the partition function that results in a generalized Migdal formula. In this paper we study the ‘small area’ (weak coupling) expansion of the partition function, by exploiting the fact that the generalized Migdal formula is analytic in the (complexification of the) Euler characteristic. The structure of the perturbative part of the weak coupling expansion suggests that the moduli space of flat connections (of the SU(2) and SO(3) theories) on these infinite genus surfaces are well defined, perhaps in an appropriate regularization.
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Ghoshal, D., Imbimbo, C. & Kumar, D. Weak coupling expansion of Yang-Mills theory on recursive infinite genus surfaces. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 181 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2014)181
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