Sampling using gauge equivariant flows
Aug 12, 2020
25 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 103 (2021) 7, 074504
- Published: Apr 21, 2021
e-Print:
- 2008.05456 [hep-lat]
Report number:
- MIT-CTP/5228
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Abstract: (APS)
We develop a flow-based sampling algorithm for SU(N) lattice gauge theories that is gauge invariant by construction. Our key contribution is constructing a class of flows on an SU(N) variable [or on a U(N) variable by a simple alternative] that respects matrix conjugation symmetry. We apply this technique to sample distributions of single SU(N) variables and to construct flow-based samplers for SU(2) and SU(3) lattice gauge theory in two dimensions.Note:
- 24 pages, 19 figures
- Lattice field theories, lattice QCD
- dimension: 2
- invariance: gauge
- SU(N)
- lattice field theory
- flow
- SU(3)
- SU(2)
- U(N)
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