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The 1/N-Expansion for Flag-Manifold σ-Models

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We derive the Feynman rules for the 1/N-expansion of the simplest σ-model in the class of models that we previously proposed. We consider the case where the target space is the flag manifold U(N)/(U(1) × U(1) × U(N − 2)).

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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 197, No. 2, pp. 345–355, December, 2018.

This research was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (Project No. 14-50-00005).

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Bykov, D.V. The 1/N-Expansion for Flag-Manifold σ-Models. Theor Math Phys 197, 1691–1700 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040577918120012

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