  It was observed previously that an SU(N) extension of the Hubbard model is
dominated, at large N, by planar diagrams in the sense of 't Hooft, but the
possibility of superconducting pairing got lost in this extrapolation. To allow
for this possibility, we replace SU(N) by U(N,q), the unitary group in a vector
space of quaternions. At the level of the free energy, the difference between
the SU(N)and U(N,q) extrapolations appears only to first nonleading order in N.
