Using methods of numerical Lattice Gauge Theory we show that in the
limit of a large number of colors, properly regularized Wilson loops
have an eigenvalue distribution which changes non-analytically as the
overall size of the loop is increased. This establishes a large-$N$
phase transition in continuum planar gauge theory, a fact whose precise
implications remain to be worked out.
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