0 81 2 . 46 93 v 1 [ he p - th ] 2 6 D ec 2 00 8 Quite a Character : The Spectrum of Yang - Mills on S 3 ∗
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We introduce a simple method to extract the representation content of the spectrum of a system with SU(2) symmetry from its partition function. The method is easily generalized to systems with SO(2,4) symmetry, such as conformal field theories in four dimensions. As a specific application we obtain an explicit generating function for the representation content of free planar Yang-Mills theory on S3. The extension to N = 4 super Yang-Mills is also discussed. ∗Based on the Brown University Undergraduate Thesis Lie Algebras and N = 4 YangMills Theory by Taylor H. Newton ’08.
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