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By examining the lattice gauge approximation we show that the small volume limit of the 2-dimensional Yang-Mills functional integral is the natural symplectic measure on the moduli space of flat connections.
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Forman, R. Small volume limits of 2-d Yang-Mills. Commun.Math. Phys. 151, 39–52 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02096747
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