LARGE N LIMIT OF THE O(N) LINEAR SIGMA MODEL VIA STOCHASTIC QUANTIZATION

This article studies large N limits of a coupled system of N interacting Φ⁴ equations posed over T^d for d = 2, known as the O(N) linear sigma model. Uniform in N bounds on the dynamics are established, allowing us to show convergence to a mean-field singular SPDE, also proved to be globally well posed. Moreover, we show tightness of the invariant measures in the large N limit. For large enough mass, they converge to the (massive) Gaussian free field, the unique invariant measure of the mean-field dynamics, at a rate of order 1/ √ N with respect to the Wasserstein distance.