Geometric aspects of confining strings

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00529-XzbMATH Open0961.81088arXivhep-th/9803046OpenAlexW1984352659MaRDI QIDQ1570643FDOQ1570643

Authors: N. Delaunay 

Publication date: 11 July 2000

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Confining strings in 4D are effective, thick strings describing the confinement phase of compact U(1) and, possibly, also non-Abelian gauge fields. We show that these strings are dual to the gauge fields, inasmuch as their perturbative regime corresponds to the strong coupling (large e) regime of the gauge theory. In this regime they describe smooth surfaces with long-range correlations and Hausdorff dimension two. For lower couplings e and monopole fugacities z, a phase transition takes place, beyond which the smooth string picture is lost. On the critical line intrinsic distances on the surface diverge and correlators vanish, indicating that world-sheets become fractal.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9803046

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

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