High-temperature limit of the confining phase

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.68.1267MaRDI QIDQ4492071zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Joseph Polchinski

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9109007

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: The deconfining transition in non-Abelian gauge theory is known to occur by a condensation of Wilson lines. By expanding around an appropriate Wilson line background, it is possible at large $N$ to analytically continue the confining phase to arbitrarily high temperatures, reaching a weak coupling confinement regime. This is used to study the high temperature partition function of an $SU(N)$ electric flux tube. It is found that the partition function corresponds to that of a string theory with a number of world-sheet fields that diverges at short distance.

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