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Gauge-Dominated Boson–Fermion Universality in Large-N 4D Yang–Mills Theories.
by Vaibhav Wasnik
Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Vaibhav Wasnik |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202511_00042v1 (pdf) |
| Date submitted: | Nov. 19, 2025, 10:23 a.m. |
| Submitted by: | Vaibhav Wasnik |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
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Abstract
We show that four-dimensional $SU(N)$ Yang--Mills theories coupled to massive fundamental matter , with or without scalar self-interactions---exhibit a common large-$N$ behavior in their gauge-invariant current correlators. The large-$N$ dynamics is governed entirely by the universal Yang--Mills sector, leading to identical current correlators for fermionic and scalar theories at leading order in $1/N$, independent of the 't~Hooft coupling. This establishes a new form of boson--fermion universality in four dimensions, distinct from the familiar $(2+1)$-dimensional Chern--Simons--matter dualities, and shows that the mechanism extends beyond topological gauge dynamics.
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