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Main Authors: Butti, Pietro, Della Morte, Michele, Jäger, Benjamin, Martins, Sofie, Tsang, J. Tobias
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05155
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author Butti, Pietro
Della Morte, Michele
Jäger, Benjamin
Martins, Sofie
Tsang, J. Tobias
author_facet Butti, Pietro
Della Morte, Michele
Jäger, Benjamin
Martins, Sofie
Tsang, J. Tobias
contents Recent software advances now allow large-scale lattice studies of the Corrigan--Ramond large-$N_C$ limit of Yang-Mills theory coupled with a two-index antisymmetric fermion, providing a path to SUSY Yang-Mills. We are currently generating ensembles for $N_C=4,5,6$ for lattice spacings in the range $0.11 - 0.08$ fm. We report on two aspects of our work: the study of topological properties as well as estimates of discretisation effects. The first aspect is relevant since naively, fractional topological charges might be expected in our simulations. Using a gluonic definition of the topological charge combined with gradient flow, we perform an analysis of the effect of different discretisations of the kernel action, from which we identify and interpret quantitative differences between Wilson and over-improved flows such as DBW2. The second aspect is addressed by considering ratios of different reference flow times. We conclude that our current simulations might be affected by discretisation effects of order 10\%.
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spellingShingle Discretisation effects of gradient flows in QCD-like theories on the lattice
Butti, Pietro
Della Morte, Michele
Jäger, Benjamin
Martins, Sofie
Tsang, J. Tobias
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Recent software advances now allow large-scale lattice studies of the Corrigan--Ramond large-$N_C$ limit of Yang-Mills theory coupled with a two-index antisymmetric fermion, providing a path to SUSY Yang-Mills. We are currently generating ensembles for $N_C=4,5,6$ for lattice spacings in the range $0.11 - 0.08$ fm. We report on two aspects of our work: the study of topological properties as well as estimates of discretisation effects. The first aspect is relevant since naively, fractional topological charges might be expected in our simulations. Using a gluonic definition of the topological charge combined with gradient flow, we perform an analysis of the effect of different discretisations of the kernel action, from which we identify and interpret quantitative differences between Wilson and over-improved flows such as DBW2. The second aspect is addressed by considering ratios of different reference flow times. We conclude that our current simulations might be affected by discretisation effects of order 10\%.
title Discretisation effects of gradient flows in QCD-like theories on the lattice
topic High Energy Physics - Lattice
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05155