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We compute and analyse the low-lying spectrum of 2+1 dimensional SU(N) Yang-Mills theory on a spatial torus of size l × l with twisted boundary conditions. This paper extends our previous work [1]. In that paper we studied the sector with non-vanishing electric flux and concluded that the energies only depend on the parameters through two combinations: x = λN l/(4π) (with λ the ’t Hooft coupling) and the twist angle \( \tilde{\theta} \) defined in terms of the magnetic flux piercing the two-dimensional box. Here we made a more complete study and we are able to condense our results, obtained by non-perturbative lattice methods, into a simple expression which has important implications for the absence of tachyonic instabilities, volume independence and non-commutative field theory. Then we extend our study to the sector of vanishing electric flux. We conclude that the onset of the would-be large-volume glueball states occurs at an approximately fixed value of x, much before the stringy torelon states have become very massive.
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Pérez, M.G., González-Arroyo, A., Koren, M. et al. The spectrum of 2+1 dimensional Yang-Mills theory on a twisted spatial torus. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 169 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2018)169
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