Comments on k-strings at large N

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2011)075zbMATH Open1301.81143arXiv1012.5875MaRDI QIDQ475950FDOQ475950

Authors: Joanna L. Karczmarek, G. W. Semenoff, Shuhang Yang 

Publication date: 27 November 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a computation of the k-string tension in the large N limit of the two dimensional lattice Yang-Mills theory. It is well known that the problems of computing the partition function and the Wilson loop can be both reduced to a unitary matrix integral which has a third order phase transition separating weak and strong coupling. We give an explicit computation of the interaction energy for k-strings in the large N limit when k/N is held constant and non-zero. In this limit, the interaction energy is finite and attractive. We show that, in the strong coupling phase, the k -> N - k duality is realized as a first order phase transition. We also show that the lattice k-string tension reduces to the expected Casimir scaling in the continuum limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5875

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zbMATH Keywords

lattice gauge field theoriesmatrix models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) 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) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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