Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2010-08-16
JHEP 1012:058,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
18 pages, 1 figure, JHEP format. v2: added remark on 1/R^7 corrections to ground state energy
Scientific paper
10.1007/JHEP12(2010)058
The effective action on long strings, such as confining strings in pure Yang-Mills theories, is well-approximated by the Nambu-Goto action, but this action cannot be exact. The leading possible corrections to this action (in a long string expansion in the static gauge), allowed by Lorentz invariance, were recently identified, both for closed strings and for open strings. In this paper we compute explicitly in a Hamiltonian formalism the leading corrections to the lowest-lying Nambu-Goto energy levels in both cases, and verify that they are consistent with the previously computed effective string partition functions. For open strings of length R the leading correction is of order 1/R^4, for excited closed strings of length R in D>3 space-time dimensions it is of order 1/R^5, while for the ground state of the closed string in any dimension it is of order 1/R^7. We attempt to match our closed string corrections to lattice results, but the latter are still mostly outside the range of convergence of the 1/R expansion that we use.
Aharony Ofer
Klinghoffer Nizan
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