Rectangular Wilson loops at large N

2012/06/30 by Robert Lohmayer, R. Lohmayer, Herbert Neuberger +1 · 14 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Euclidean geometry #Gauge theory #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Lattice (music) #Lattice field theory #Lattice gauge theory #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #String (physics) #String theory #Tension (geology) #Wilson loop #hep-lat #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep08(2012)102

published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2012(8) (Springer Nature) · 47 pages, 21 figures, 8 tables

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Abstract

This work is about pure Yang-Mills theory in four Euclidean dimensions with gauge group SU(N). We study rectangular smeared Wilson loops on the lattice at large N and relatively close to the large-N transition point in their eigenvalue density. We show that the string tension can be extracted from these loops but their dependence on shape differs from the asymptotic prediction of effective string theory.

Citations

• Infrared factorization, Wilson lines and the heavy quark limit
• Computation of the string tension in four-dimensional Yang–Mills theory using large N reduction
• Zeta function regularization of path integrals in curved spacetime

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