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Testing Proposals for the Yang-Mills Vacuum Wavefunctional by Measurement of the Vacuum

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We review a method, suggested many years ago, to numerically measure the relative amplitudes of the true Yang-Mills vacuum wavefunctional in a finite set of lattice-regulated field configurations. The technique is applied in 2+1 dimensions to sets of abelian plane wave configurations of varying amplitude and wavelength, and sets of non-abelian constant configurations. The results are compared to the predictions of several proposed versions of the Yang-Mills vacuum wavefunctional that have appeared in the literature. These include (i) a suggestion in temporal gauge due to Greensite and Olejnik; (ii) the "new variables" wavefunction put forward by Karabali, Kim, and Nair; (iii) a hybrid proposal combining features of the temporal gauge and new variables wavefunctionals; and (iv) Coulomb gauge wavefunctionals developed by Reinhardt and co-workers, and by Szczepaniak and co-workers. We find that wavefunctionals which simplify to a "dimensional reduction" form at large scales, i.e. which have the form of a probability distribution for two-dimensional lattice gauge theory, when evaluated on long-wavelength configurations, have the optimal agreement with the data.

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Schwinger-Keldysh Path Integral for Gauge theories

hep-th · 2026-04-29 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0 · 2 refs

Constructs a manifestly diagonal-BRST-invariant Schwinger-Keldysh path integral for open non-Abelian gauge theories with arbitrary physical initial states, yielding Ward-Takahashi-Slavnov-Taylor identities and a Keldysh BRST symmetry for the Open EFT.

Variational Neural Network Approach to QFT in the Field Basis

hep-ph · 2025-07-31 · conditional · novelty 6.0

A variational neural network ansatz approximates the ground-state wavefunctional of the free Klein-Gordon theory in momentum-space field basis and is validated against exact analytic observables.

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  • Schwinger-Keldysh Path Integral for Gauge theories hep-th · 2026-04-29 · unverdicted · none · ref 218 · 2 links · internal anchor

    Constructs a manifestly diagonal-BRST-invariant Schwinger-Keldysh path integral for open non-Abelian gauge theories with arbitrary physical initial states, yielding Ward-Takahashi-Slavnov-Taylor identities and a Keldysh BRST symmetry for the Open EFT.

  • Variational Neural Network Approach to QFT in the Field Basis hep-ph · 2025-07-31 · conditional · none · ref 4 · internal anchor

    A variational neural network ansatz approximates the ground-state wavefunctional of the free Klein-Gordon theory in momentum-space field basis and is validated against exact analytic observables.