Aspects of confinement and screening in M-theory

Shmuel Elitzur; Oskar Pelc; Eliezer Rabinovici

doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00655-5

Aspects of confinement and screening in M-theory

Shmuel Elitzur^*, Oskar Pelc, Eliezer Rabinovici

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Racah Institute of Physics

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Abstract

Confinement and screening are investigated in SUSY gauge theories, realized by an M5-brane configuration, extending an approach applied previously to N = 1 SYM theory, to other models. The electric flux tubes are identified as M2-branes ending on the M5-branes and the conserved charge they carry is identified as a topological property. The group of charges carried by the flux tubes is calculated and the results agree in all cases considered with the field-theoretical expectations. In particular, whenever the dynamical matter is expected to screen the confining force, this is reproduced correctly in the M-theory realization.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	271-294
Number of pages	24
Journal	Nuclear Physics B
Volume	540
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00655-5
State	Published - 8 Feb 1999

Keywords

Confinement
Gauge theory
M-theory
String theory
Supersymmetry

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