Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2000-06-06
Phys.Lett. B493 (2000) 402-410
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
17 pages, Latex, 5 eps figures, a discussion about the naked singularity is included and three references added
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(00)01152-7
We study solutions of the one-loop beta-functions of the critical bosonic string theory in the framework of the Renormalization Group (RG) approach to string theory, considering explicitly the effects of the 21 extra dimensions. In the RG approach the 26-dimensional manifold is given in terms of a four dimensional Minkowski spacetime times R and a 21-dimensional hyper-plane. In calculating the Wilson loops, as it is wellknown for this kind of confining geometry, two phenomena appear: confinement and over-confinement. There is a critical minimal surface below of which it leads to confinement only. The role of the extra dimensions is understood in terms of a dimensionless scale l provided by them. Therefore the effective string tension in the area law, the length of the Wilson loops, as well as, the size of the critical minimal surface depend on this scale. When this confining geometry is used to study a field-theory beta-function with an infrared attractive point (as the Novikov-Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov beta-function) the range of the couplings where the field theory is confining depends on that scale. We have explicitly calculated the l-dependence of that range.
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