We evaluate analytically the Witten index of D = 2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills quantum mechanics. We rederive a known result for the SU(2) gauge group and generalize it to any SU(N) gauge group.

Topics
Maxwell equations, Operator theory, Particle symmetry, Quantum field theory, Gauge symmetry, Hilbert space, Quantum mechanics, Scalar field theory, Gauge group, Quantization condition
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