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TWO-DIMENSIONAL YANG-MILLS THEORIES ARE STRING THEORIES
We show that two-dimensional SO (N) and Sp (N) Yang-Mills theories without fermions can be interpreted as closed string theories. The terms in the 1/N expansion of the partition function on an orientable or nonorientable manifold ℳ can be associated with maps from a string worldsheet onto ℳ. These maps …