title: Nonanalyticity in scale in the planar limit of QCD.
abstract: Using methods of numerical lattice gauge theory we show that, in the limit of a large number of colors, properly regularized Wilson loops have an eigenvalue distribution which changes nonanalytically as the overall size of the loop is increased. This establishes a large-N phase transition in continuum planar gauge theory, a fact whose precise implications remain to be worked out.
authors.affiliation: Rutgers University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA. lohmayer@physics.rutgers.edu
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lohmayer
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Neuberger