Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2003-04-21
Phys.Rev. D69 (2004) 065019
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
20 pages RevTeX4 with 3 .eps figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.69.065019
We offer a physicists' proof that center-vortex theory requires the area in the Wilson-loop area law to involve an extremal area. Area-law dynamics is determined by integrating over Wilson loops only, not over surface fluctuations for a fixed loop. Fluctuations leading to to perimeter-law corrections come from loop fluctuations as well as integration over finite -thickness center-vortex collective coordinates. In d=3 (or d=2+1) we exploit a contour form of the extremal area in isothermal which is similar to d=2 (or d=1+1) QCD in many respects, except that there are both quartic and quadratic terms in the action. One major result is that at large angular momentum \ell in d=3+1 the center-vortex extremal-area picture yields a linear Regge trajectory with Regge slope--string tension product \alpha'(0)K_F of 1/(2\pi), which is the canonical Veneziano/string value. In a curious effect traceable to retardation, the quark kinetic terms in the action vanish relative to area-law terms in the large-\ell limit, in which light-quark masses \sim K_F^{1/2} are negligible. This corresponds to string-theoretic expectations, even though we emphasize that the extremal-area law is not a string theory quantum-mechanically. We show how some quantum trajectory fluctuations as well as non-leading classical terms for finite mass yield corrections scaling with \ell^{-1/2}. We compare to old semiclassical calculations of relativistic q\bar{q} bound states at large \ell, which also yield asymptotically-linear Regge trajectories, finding agreement with a naive string picture (classically, not quantum-mechanically) and disagreement with an effective-propagator model. We show that contour forms of the area law can be expressed in terms of Abelian gauge potentials, and relate this to old work of Comtet.
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