We show that in the limit N→∞ integrals with respect to Haar measure of products of the elements of a matrix in SO(N) approach corresponding moments of a set of independent Gaussian random variables. Similar asymptotic forms are obtained for SU(N) and Sp(N). An application of these results to Wilson’s formulation of lattice gauge theory is briefly considered.
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K. G. Wilson, in Gauge Theories and Modern Field Theory, edited by R. Arnowitt and P. Nath (M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1975).
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I am grateful to A. Lenard for calling my attention to this result.
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A proof for the ease of a single random variable is given by M. Loève, Probability Theory (Van Nostrand, New York, 1955), p. 185.
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© 1978 American Institute of Physics.
1978
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