The instanton contributions to Yang-Mills theory on the torus: localization, Wilson loops and the perturbative expansion
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The instanton contributions to the partition function and to homologically trivial Wilson loops for a U(N) Yang-Mills theory on a torus T 2 are analyzed. An exact expression for the partition function is obtained as a sum of contributions localized around the classical solutions of Yang-Mills equations, that appear according to the general classification of Atiyah and Bott. Explicit expressions for the exact Wilson loop averages are obtained when N = 2, N = 3. For general N the contribution of the zero-instanton sector has been carefully derived in the decompactification limit, reproducing the sum of the perturbative series on the plane, in which the light-cone gauge Yang-Mills propagator is prescribed according to Wu-Mandelstam-Leibbrandt (WML). Agreement with the results coming from S2 is therefore obtained, confirming the truly perturbative nature of the WML computations. Padova preprint DFPD 98/TH . PACS numbers: 11.15Bt, 11.15Pg, 11.15Me
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