The weak coupling expansion is applied to the single flavour Schwinger model
with Wilson fermions on a symmetric toroidal lattice of finite extent. We
develop a new analytic method which permits the expression of the partition
function as a product of pure gauge expectation values whose zeroes are the
Lee-Yang zeroes of the model. Application of standard finite-size scaling
techniques to these zeroes recovers previous numerical results for the small
and moderate lattice sizes to which those studies were restricted. Our
techniques, employable for arbitrarily large lattices, reveal the absence of
accumulation of these zeroes on the real hopping parameter axis at constant
weak gauge coupling. The consequence of this previously unobserved behaviour is
the absence of a zero fermion mass phase transition in the Schwinger model with
single flavour Wilson fermions at constant weak gauge coupling.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, insert to figure 2 include
