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This paper establishes a rough analogue of classical Coulomb-gauge compactness and uses it to show that the 2D Yang–Mills measure on the unit square has a gauge-fixed representative of Gaussian-free-field regularity, with sharp moment bound

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arxiv 2607.22236 v1 pith:AJQQO2V5 submitted 2026-07-24 math.AP math-phmath.MPmath.PR

A PDE approach to the 2D Yang-Mills measure

Ilya Chevyrev , Tom Klose , Abdulwahab Mohamed This is my paper
classification math.AP math-phmath.MPmath.PR MSC 60L2060L3081T1335J75
keywords 2D Yang–Mills measurerough additive functionsCoulomb gaugeregularity structuressingular elliptic PDEgauge-fixed representativemollification stabilitydistributional connections
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This paper tries to prove that the two-dimensional Yang–Mills measure—the random gauge connection whose curvature is white noise—can be represented in a gauge where both components have essentially the same small-scale regularity as the Gaussian free field, i.e. just below Lipschitz. The central claim is a deterministic compactness theorem: every connection described by a rough additive function can be put into Coulomb gauge by a controlled gauge transformation, and the gauge-fixed connection belongs to the space Ω^1_β of 1-forms whose line integrals along arbitrary curves are almost β-Hölder, for every β below a threshold. On the probabilistic side, this yields a representative of the Yang–Mills measure on the unit square with sharp polynomial moment bounds, and with smooth mollifications converging to it in L^p. The conceptual novelty is that the singular PDE for the gauge transformation needs no extra renormalisation data: its full model is determined by the rough additive function itself, via an identity that identifies a Green's-kernel convolution with line integrals of the connection.

Core claim

The discovery, on the paper's own terms, is that rough additive functions—pairs (A,A) of line integrals and iterated line integrals satisfying the algebraic relations of enhanced line integrals—are the right enhancement for solving the Coulomb-gauge equation for distributional connections. Theorem 1.1 states that for α∈(4/9,1/2) and β∈(0,6α−2), every rough additive function A admits a controlled gauge transformation g with A^g∈Ω^1_β and |A^g|_β ≤ C(1+~A~_{α-ax})^{(2+β−α)/α} ~A~_{α-ax}, with a Lipschitz estimate for pairs of inputs. Theorem 1.2 applies this to the Yang–Mills measure on the unit square: there is a representative B∈Ω^1_β with E[|B|_β^p]^{1/p} ≲ p^{(2+β)/2+δ} for every δ>0, and

What carries the argument

Rough additive functions (RAFs): pairs (A,A) assigning to each short line segment a Lie-algebra value and an iterated integral, obeying additivity, a symmetry condition, and Hölder-type bounds on growth and on differences between horizontally equivalent segments. The engine is the deterministic rough compactness theorem (Theorem 1.1), proved by solving the singular elliptic PDE for the Coulomb gauge via a regularity structure with non-standard homogeneities (∂2A1 is treated as better than ∂1A1 because of the axial gauge) and an ODE inspired by the implicit function theorem. The load-bearing identity (4.2), K1*A1(y)−K1*A1(x)=A(ℓ_{x;y})+ζ(ℓ_{x;y})+H(ℓ_{x;y}) with ζ=d*K*F_A∈Ω^1_{2α} and H smoot

Load-bearing premise

The result stands or falls on the proof that the singular PDE's model is determined by, and locally Lipschitz in, the rough additive function, and in particular that the residual term ζ in identity (4.2) has the claimed regularity; the paper defers some extension-theorem details and passes to distributional inputs by approximation.

What would settle it

Compute the triangular seminorm |ζ|_{2α-tr} of ζ=d*K*F_A for a rough axial field with finite RAF norm, e.g., a mollified white-noise axial connection. If |ζ(∂U)| grows faster than |A|_{α-ax}|U|^α for arbitrarily small rectangles U, the key residual estimate fails and the gauge-fixed representative need not lie in Ω^1_β.

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If this is right

  • The Yang–Mills measure on the unit square has a representative in Ω^1_β for every β<1, hence in C^{−κ} for every κ>0—the Gaussian-free-field regularity expected from perturbation theory.
  • Moment growth is polynomial and nearly optimal: E[|B|_β^p]^{1/p} ≲ p^{(2+β)/2+δ}, improving previous estimates that grew faster than polynomially in a Gaussian variable.
  • Mollifying the axial white-noise curvature and gauge-fixing each mollification gives smooth connections that converge to the gauge-fixed representative almost surely and in L^p at a power rate in the mollification scale.
  • The gauge-fixing map A↦(g,A^g) is locally Lipschitz on bounded sets, so small perturbations of the underlying rough connection produce controlled perturbations of the Coulomb gauge.
  • The same Coulomb-gauge and patching scheme is expected to work on any compact surface once local rough additive functions with compatible overlaps are constructed.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the factorisation from rough additive function to model is as clean as claimed, stochastic integration in the axial gauge could be replaced by deterministic rough-path estimates, potentially simplifying constructions on other surfaces and in settings where line integrals are not available, such as 3D Yang–Mills.
  • The moment bound implies the gauge-fixed norm is stochastically dominated by C(1+|X|^{3/2}) for a Gaussian X; if sharp, this sub-Gaussian tail with exponent 3/2 could constrain Wilson-loop variances and large-N limits.
  • For Abelian structure groups, the key identity should make the gauge-fixed representative explicitly a Gaussian free field plus a smoother remainder; isolating that remainder numerically or analytically would be a direct test of the paper's regularity claims.
  • The paper leaves open whether the optimal β can be pushed to 1 in the isotropic space Ω^1_β; if the residual ζ were shown to be smoother than proved, the patching theorem would likely allow it.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces rough additive functions (RAFs), pairs of additive line integrals and iterated integrals satisfying Chen's identity and weak geometricity, as a state space for distributional connection 1-forms in the axial gauge. It defines controlled gauge transformations over RAFs and proves a rough version of Uhlenbeck compactness: every RAF can be gauge-transformed into a 1-form in the isotropic space Ω^1_β with quantitative bounds, by solving a singular elliptic PDE via regularity structures and an ODE/implicit-function-type method. The model for the PDE is claimed to be canonically determined by the RAF. These deterministic results are applied to the 2D Yang–Mills measure on the unit square, yielding a gauge-fixed representative B∈Ω^1_β with moment bounds E[|B|_β^p]^{1/p} ≲ p^{(2+β)/2+δ} and a Wong–Zakai stability statement for mollified white-noise approximations. Theorems 1.1, 1.2, 6.1, and 6.5 are the main results.

Significance. If the proof chain is completed, this would be a substantial advance: a deterministic rough Uhlenbeck compactness theorem in the distributional regime, a regularity-structures model built from a geometrically natural object (the RAF) rather than from ad hoc renormalisation, and a gauge-fixed representative of the 2D Yang–Mills measure with GFF-level regularity and sharp polynomial moment growth. The paper is ambitious and largely self-contained, and the claimed factorisation A→(A,A)→Z is conceptually appealing. The explicit local Lipschitz dependence and the Wong–Zakai-type stability are valuable features not present in earlier lattice-based constructions.

major comments (4)
  1. [§4, Theorem 4.1 and Remark 4.2] The proof of the model bounds stops at the symbols S^- and states 'we refrain from giving any more details' for the iterated extension-theorem cases. This is on the critical path: Theorem 6.1 and hence Theorems 1.1 and 1.2 depend on the model bounds. Because the homogeneity of D_2A_1 is the nonstandard −1−2κ (Remark 3.4) and the structure contains mixed symbols such as I_1 I_2^2 A_1 and D_2(I_1A_1I_1A_1), the abstract extension theorem [Hai14, Thm 5.24] cannot be assumed to apply verbatim; the admissible-model hypotheses need to be checked directly. Remark 4.2's passage to distributional A by approximation is also an assertion: one must prove that A↦Z^A is Cauchy on approximating sequences and that the limit satisfies Definition 3.16. These checks are load-bearing for the claim that the model is determined entirely by the RAF.
  2. [§2.4, Proposition 2.9; §2.7, Lemma 2.22] Proposition 2.9 leaves 'additivity, Chen's identity and the bounds' as an exercise to the reader; this is the statement that the gauge-transformed object A^g is again an RAF, and it is used in Theorem 6.5 to conclude A^{g_R(A)}∈Ω^1_β. Lemma 2.10 is a one-dimensional rough-path statement and does not by itself yield the global identities on the full line-segment space X. Lemma 2.22 similarly leaves the horizontal extension details to the reader; this extension is needed to place A_1 in C^1_c(R^2) with uniform RAF bounds before the model construction of Section 4. These are likely fixable, but as written they are unproved statements on the critical path.
  3. [§6.3, display (6.25)] The exponent in (6.25) appears inconsistent with the preceding lemmas. Lemmas 6.11 and 6.12 give a p-th moment bound with factor |ε−ε̄|^{κp}; applying Theorem 2.24's stability estimate (2.34) yields E[~A^ε;A^ε̄~^p]^{1/p} ≲ √p |ε−ε̄|^κ, not |ε−ε̄|^{κ/2}. The subsequent derivation of (6.26) and the quantitative rate in (1.15) depend on this. Since Theorem 1.2 is existential in κ, the main existence claim may survive, but the proof as written needs correction.
  4. [§6.1, proof of Theorem 6.1, final paragraph] The extension from smooth A to general A∈Ω^1_{α-ax} is dismissed with 'the general statement follows by continuity and density.' Since Theorem 6.1 is applied in Theorem 6.5 to scaled, generally distributional RAFs, this passage is load-bearing. The limit procedure should be written out: approximating smooth A_n, using (6.1) to obtain Cauchy sequences g_n and B_n, and verifying that the limits satisfy (g,L_g)∈G^{2α}_A and d^*B=0 in the appropriate sense. This is likely routine, but it is not a one-line consequence.
minor comments (3)
  1. [§1.1, §3.5] There are several typographical errors: 'we a prove' in §1.1, 'ceofficients' in §3.5, and an incomplete sentence at the end of the proof of Theorem 1.2. These should be corrected.
  2. [§2.8, Theorem 2.24; §6.3] Theorem 2.24 requires p>16/α; for the application with α=1/2 this means p>32. The proof of Theorem 1.2 states the moment bounds for all p≥1; an interpolation argument for small p is needed to justify the uniform constant.
  3. [§6.3, Definition 6.7 and Theorem 1.2] Definition 6.7 defines a representative only for β∈(1/2,1], because holonomies are required. Theorem 1.2 states the result for all β∈(0,1). The case β≤1/2 presumably follows by monotonicity from a representative with β>1/2; this should be stated explicitly.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the gauge-fixed YM regularity is derived from a canonical RAF-to-model map and a deterministic compactness theorem; reliance on prior work is technical, not definitional.

full rationale

The paper's central derivation is a deterministic rough Uhlenbeck compactness statement (Theorem 1.1) whose input is a rough additive function A and whose output is a controlled gauge transformation g with A^g ∈ Ω^1_β. The model Z needed to solve the Coulomb-gauge PDE is constructed from A in Theorem 4.1 and Proposition 4.4 via the explicit identity K1*A1(y)−K1*A1(x) = A(ℓ_{x;y}) + ζ(ℓ_{x;y}) + H(ℓ_{x;y}), with ζ and H bounded in terms of the RAF norm. These bounds are proved from the axioms of Ω^1_{α-ax} and kernel estimates; they are not set equal to the desired regularity conclusion. The YM application (Theorem 1.2) builds a canonical Stratonovich lift of the axial-gauge white-noise line integrals, with Wong–Zakai stability proven from the Lipschitz dependence of the model and solution maps; no parameter is fitted to the target moment bound. The paper does cite prior work by the same authors ([Che19], [CCHS22]) for embeddings and state-space facts, but these are technical tools rather than a load-bearing uniqueness theorem, and the main analytic ingredients are external standard results ([Hai14], [FH20]). The only flagged gap is in the proof of Theorem 4.1, where the paper says 'we refrain from giving any more details' for iterated extension-theorem cases, and Remark 4.2 passes to distributional A by approximation. This is an omitted proof / correctness risk, not a circular step: the construction of Z from A is explicit and does not assume the target bound. Therefore the derivation chain is not circular.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

4 free parameters · 6 axioms · 3 invented entities

No data fitting anywhere in the paper: the singular PDE's model is constructed (Thm 4.1) from the RAF, and the RAF's enhancement is the canonical Stratonovich lift of the white-noise line integrals — the Wong–Zakai convergence in Thm 1.2 verifies this choice rather than assuming it. The hand-chosen numbers are universal proof constants (σ_sol, σ_coul, δ_patch, σ_R in (6.5), the boundary condition 1G, the Green's truncation K), not fitted parameters. The heaviest prior-lift is the Ω^1_β apparatus of [Che19]/[CCHS22], used as parameter-free black boxes (norm equivalence, embeddings, gauge-action bounds); these are self-group results but do not contain the target claims, so they count as independent support under the review rules. The only genuine domain assumption is the identification of the gauge-invariant YM measure with the axial-gauge white-noise field via loop expectations (Def 6.7), which is prior art (Driver/GKS89/Lévy) and is the entry point of all probabilistic content.

free parameters (4)
  • σ_R (scaling smallness) = min((σ_coul/R)^{1/α}, (δ_patch/(2 C_coul R))^{1/α}, 1)
    Hand-chosen in (6.5) of Theorem 6.5's proof to zoom in until the RAF norm shrinks below σ_coul so the local Coulomb gauge theorem applies. A proof constant, not fitted to data, but load-bearing for the patching argument.
  • σ_sol(L), σ_coul, δ_patch, r_log
    Universal smallness thresholds for the IFT solution theory (Thm 3.33), the Coulomb gauge (Thm 6.1) and the patching theorem (Thm 5.4). Chosen by hand; no data involved; the margin κ∈(0,1/6) in the homogeneities is a similar regularity margin.
  • Boundary condition g|∂Λ = 1G
    Explicitly 'an arbitrary but convenient choice' (§1.1, after (1.11)); the authors note any fixed boundary condition works. A convention, not a fitted datum.
  • Green's function truncation K
    Chosen in Def 3.16(b) to equal the Green's function on [-4,4]^2 and be compactly supported in [-5,5]^2; the identities (3.18)–(3.19) for canonical models rely on this choice. A technical convention with a standard rationale.
axioms (6)
  • standard math Rough path calculus: sewing lemma, extension theorem, Itô–Lyons continuity, controlled-path composition (used throughout §2 and Lemma 6.3).
    Invoked from [FH20]; no proof repeated. These theorems do not contain the target claims.
  • standard math Regularity structures foundations: reconstruction (3.23), integration operator (Prop 3.23 via [Hai14, Thm 5.24]), product estimates (Prop 3.21 = [Hai14, Prop 6.12]).
    Used to build and solve the singular PDE; standard machinery assumed as background.
  • standard math Prior state-space theorems for Ω^1_β: |·|_β ≍ |·|_{β-gr}+|·|_{β-vee} ([CCHS22, Thm 3.11]), embedding (2.3) ([Che19, Cor 3.23]), and gauge-transformed additive function bounds (Props 5.7/5.8 'basically follow [CCHS22, Thm 3.27]').
    Self-group results used as black boxes with parameter-free statements; they do not assume the target theorems. Deferring Props 5.7/5.8 is nonetheless a gap in the patching chain.
  • domain assumption 2D Yang–Mills measure = axial-gauge white noise: A(ℓ) = ξ(1_{U_ℓ}) with Stratonovich holonomies represents the gauge-invariant YM measure (Definition 6.7, §6.3).
    This identification, from [GKS89, Dri89, Lév03], is the probabilistic input. The paper's 'representative' definition is loop-expectation based; if this identification failed, Theorem 1.2 would not be about the YM measure.
  • domain assumption Subcriticality/power counting for (1.8): with A1 ∈ C^{-1/2−} and |D2A1| = −1−2κ the equation is subcritical and is enhanced without negative renormalisation (§1.1, Def 3.3).
    The paper says 'one can check' subcriticality; the working of Sections 3–4 is the constructive verification. The special homogeneity of ∂2A1 is justified by Lemma 4.3.
  • standard math Wong–Zakai convergence of Stratonovich lifts for mollified white noise (used in Thm 1.2's stability part and Lemma 6.12).
    Standard stochastic analysis; the paper proves the specific quantitative version (diff bounds in Lemmas 6.8, 6.11, 6.12).
invented entities (3)
  • Rough additive functions (A, A) in Ω^1_{α-ax} no independent evidence
    purpose: State space for distributional axial-gauge connections carrying line integrals plus iterated integrals (Chen identity, weak geometricity), enabling holonomies and controlled gauge action at regularity C^{-1/2−}.
    Canonically constructed from smooth forms and from the YM white noise via the Stratonovich lift; the Kolmogorov continuity theorem (2.24) connects them to the measure. No free postulates: the enhancement is the canonical lift, not a fitted input.
  • Solution regularity structure T_sol with non-standard homogeneities (|D2A1| = −1−2κ), abstract D_i, I_i, and structure group G_sol no independent evidence
    purpose: Solve the singular gauge-fixing PDE (1.8) by regularity structures with canonical (non-renormalised) models.
    Built explicitly (Defs 3.3, 3.10–3.16, Tables 1–2); the model for it is determined by the RAF (Thm 4.1). The unusual D2 homogeneity is forced by the axial-gauge gain (Lemma 4.3), not hand-picked to match the answer.
  • Controlled gauge transformations G^{2α}_A no independent evidence
    purpose: Class of gauge transformations acting continuously on the RAF space (Def 2.6), analogue of Gubinelli controlled paths.
    Definition with proven action (Props 2.9, 2.10, 2.14); a bookkeeping device, no new physical content.

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We introduce the concept of rough additive functions, which extends rough paths theory to line integrals of distributional 1-forms. In the context of gauge theory, we use this notion to define controlled gauge transformations and holonomies via RDEs. One of our main results is a rough version of Uhlenbeck compactness for distributional connections based on rough additive functions. The main ingredient is a singular elliptic PDE to obtain a Coulomb gauge. We solve this PDE using regularity structures and a method inspired by the implicit function theorem. Surprisingly, the model needed to solve the equation is determined entirely from rough additive functions, which is a simpler and geometrically more natural object. We apply our results to the Yang-Mills measure on the unit square, showing that it has a gauge-fixed representation with optimal regularity. Although we focus on the unit square in this article, we expect our results to apply to more general surfaces.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Graphic representation of line segments Definition 2.17 (Enhanced additive functions in the axial gauge) We denote by A ax ⊂ A the collection of enhanced additive functions in the axial gauge with the defining property that A = (A, A) vanishes on X \ Xh, i.e. A(ℓ) = 0, A(ℓ) = 0, for all ℓ ∈ X \ Xh. Moreover, we say A ∈ A ax,0 is in the complete axial gauge if it also vanishes on Xh-ax. Remark 2.18 Any A ∈ … view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: A graphical representation of the line segment [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p067_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Horizontal patching. There are three rectangles, Un-(1, 0) , Un, and Un∩n+(1, 0) , together with their respective overlaps in purple. These overlaps are further partitioned into three equal parts to interpolate gauge transformations by means of Lemma 5.6 applied with V , V1, and V2 as given in the figure, see (5.7) and (5.8) below. By construction, the function gn given in (5.10) below equals 1G on the sha… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Horizontal-vertical overlaps between adjacent rectangles. By choice of our parameters, the purple rectangle has side lengths greater equal than 1/4 and so the orange triangle of diameter 1/4 or less is contained in precisely one of the four rectangles, namely Un+(1, 1) . Examples of regions V , V1, and V2 are given in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p072_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Patching in the second (“vertical”) direction. For any m ∈ Nl 2 , the new “long” rectangle Uˇm arises as the union of the smaller rectangles U(n,m) for n ∈ Nl 1 . For presentational clarity, their horizontal overlaps on each level m are shaded in darker red. resp. gray. The new one-form Am given in (5.11) is now defined on Uˇm and the patching concerns the “vertical” overlap Uˇm ∩ Uˇm+1 shaded in dark gray… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: The large square Λ gets covered in squares Λ σ zn of type [0, σ] 2 , anchored in zn for n ∈ N 2 L . Let z = zn for some n ∈ N 2 L . On each little square Λ σ zn we want to re-scale the rough additive function A in such a way that we work on a square of size Λ again. To this end, we define Az,σ := s σ z (A|Λσ z ) on Λ and apply Lemma 6.6 to get ~Az,σ~α-ax ≤ σ α~A~α-ax ≤ σ αR ≤ σcoul, where the last inequali… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Two line segments ℓ and ¯ℓ with their intersection point z ℓ,ℓ¯ and their intersection decomposition ((ℓ1, ℓ2), ( ¯ℓ1, ¯ℓ2)). Shaded in red (resp. blue) is the area enclosed by ℓ1 and ¯ℓ1 (resp. ℓ2 and ¯ℓ2). Remark 6.10 Let us briefly comment on the reason for introducing the intersection decomposition. In general, the identity |A(ℓ) − A( ¯ℓ)| = |ξ(1Uℓ,ℓ¯ )| for Uℓ,ℓ¯ = Uℓ△Uℓ¯ and △ the symmetric differenc… view at source ↗

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