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On k-string tensions and domain walls in gluodynamics
Nuclear Physics B, Volume: "B664", Issue: 1-2, Pages: 233 - 246
Swansea University Author:
Adi Armoni
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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00409-7
Abstract
We discuss the k dependence of the k-string tension sigma_k in SU(N) supersymmetric gluodynamics. As well known, at large N the k-string consists, to leading order, of k noninteracting fundamental strings, so that sigma_k=k sigma_1. We argue, both from field-theory and string-theory side, that suble...
| Published in: | Nuclear Physics B |
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| ISSN: | 05503213 |
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2003
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa28670 |
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We discuss the k dependence of the k-string tension sigma_k in SU(N) supersymmetric gluodynamics. As well known, at large N the k-string consists, to leading order, of k noninteracting fundamental strings, so that sigma_k=k sigma_1. We argue, both from field-theory and string-theory side, that subleading corrections to this formula run in powers of 1/N^2 rather than 1/N, thus excluding the Casimir scaling. We suggest a heuristic model allowing one to relate the k-string tension in four-dimensional gluodynamics with the tension of the BPS domain walls (k-walls). In this model the domain walls are made of a net of strings connected to each other by baryon vertices. The relation emerging in this way leads to the sine formula sigma_ k ~ Lambda^2 N sin pi k/N. We discuss possible corrections to the sine law, and present arguments that they are suppressed by 1/k factors. We explain why the sine law does not hold in two dimensions. Finally, we discuss the applicability of the sine formula for non-supersymmetric orientifold field |
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| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
| Issue: |
1-2 |
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233 |
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246 |