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Scott A. Smith

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arXiv2026

Mass generation for the two dimensional O(N) Linear Sigma Model in the large N limit

This work studies the $O(N)$ Linear Sigma Model on $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ under a scaling dictated by the formal $1/N$ expansion. We show that in the large $N$ limit, correlations decay exponentially fast, where the acquired mass decays exponentially in the inverse temperature. In fact, each marginal converges to a massive Gaussian Free Field (GFF) on $\mathbb{R}^{2}$, quantified in the $2$-Wasserstein distance with a weighted $H^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{2})$ cost function. In contrast to prior work on the torus via parabolic stochastic quantization, our results hold without restrictions on the coupling constants, allowing us to also obtain a massive GFF in a suitable double scaling limit. Our proof combines the Feyel/Üstünel extension of Talagrand's inequality with some classical tools in Euclidean Quantum Field Theory.

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arXiv2025

Schauder Estimates for Germs by Scaling

In this expository note, we show that the blow-up arguments of L. Simon adapt well to the corresponding Schauder theory of germs used in the study of singular SPDEs. We illustrate this through some representative examples. As in the classical PDE framework, the argument relies only on the scaling properties of the germ semi-norms and the Liouville principle for the operator.

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arXiv2025

Makeenko-Migdal equations for 2D Yang-Mills: from lattice to continuum

In this paper, we prove the convergence of the discrete Makeenko-Migdal equations for the Yang-Mills model on $(\varepsilon \mathbf{Z})^{2}$ to their continuum counterparts on the plane, in an appropriate sense. The key step in the proof is identifying the limits of the contributions from deformations as the area derivatives of the Wilson loop expectations.

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arXiv2024

A new derivation of the finite $N$ master loop equation for lattice Yang-Mills

We give a new derivation of the finite $N$ master loop equation for lattice Yang-Mills theory with structure group $SO(N)$, $U(N)$ or $SU(N)$. The $SO(N)$ case was initially proved by Chatterjee in \cite{Cha}, and $SU(N)$ was analyzed in a follow-up work by Jafarov \cite{Jafar}. Our approach is based on the Langevin dynamic, an SDE on the manifold of configurations, and yields a simple proof via Itô's formula.

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arXiv2021

Phase transitions, logarithmic Sobolev inequalities, and uniform-in-time propagation of chaos for weakly interacting diffusions

In this article, we study the mean field limit of weakly interacting diffusions for confining and interaction potentials that are not necessarily convex. We explore the relationship between the large $N$ limit of the constant in the logarithmic Sobolev inequality (LSI) for the $N$-particle system and the presence or absence of phase transitions for the mean field limit. The non-degeneracy of the LSI constant is shown to have far reaching consequences, especially in the context of uniform-in-time propagation of chaos and the behaviour of equilibrium fluctuations. Our results extend previous results related to unbounded spin systems and recent results on propagation of chaos using novel coupling methods. As incidentals, we provide concise and, to our knowledge, new proofs of a generalised form of Talagrand's inequality and of quantitative propagation of chaos by employing techniques from the theory of gradient flows, specifically the Riemannian calculus on the space of probability measures.

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