Confining strings, Wilson loops and extra dimensions

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(00)01152-7MaRDI QIDQ6205175zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Martin Schvellinger

Publication date 22 November 2000

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0006041

zbMATH Keywords

confining stringsextra dimensionsone-loop beta functionsWilson loop length

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: We study solutions of the one-loop beta-functions of the critical bosonic string theory in the framework of the Renormalization Group (RG) approach to string theory, considering explicitly the effects of the 21 extra dimensions. In the RG approach the 26-dimensional manifold is given in terms of a four dimensional Minkowski spacetime times R and a 21-dimensional hyper-plane. In calculating the Wilson loops, as it is wellknown for this kind of confining geometry, two phenomena appear: confinement and over-confinement. There is a critical minimal surface below of which it leads to confinement only. The role of the extra dimensions is understood in terms of a dimensionless scale l provided by them. Therefore the effective string tension in the area law, the length of the Wilson loops, as well as, the size of the critical minimal surface depend on this scale. When this confining geometry is used to study a field-theory beta-function with an infrared attractive point (as the Novikov-Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov beta-function) the range of the couplings where the field theory is confining depends on that scale. We have explicitly calculated the l-dependence of that range.

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