title: Solving pure yang-mills theory in dimensions.
abstract: We analytically compute the spectrum of the spin zero glueballs in the planar limit of pure Yang-Mills theory in 2 + 1 dimensions. The new ingredient is provided by our computation of a new nontrivial form of the ground state wave functional. The mass spectrum of the theory is determined by the zeroes of Bessel functions, and the agreement with large lattice data is excellent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. rgleigh@uiuc.edu
authors.forename: Robert G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Leigh
authors.forename: Djordje
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Minic
authors.forename: Alexandr
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yelnikov