Static potential for smooth strings
- 12 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 58 (2) , 93-96
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.58.93
Abstract
The static potential is studied in Helfrich and Polyakov’s model of smooth strings. For large separations R, the potential is linear in R with corrections of order 1/R. While the physical string tension is renormalized by the extrinsic curvature coupling, the coefficient of the 1/R term has Lüscher’s universal value to any finite order in the loop expansion. For very small separations, the leading term in the potential is proportional to 1/R, with a coefficient exactly twice that of the Lüscher term, and with corrections that are logarithmically small.Keywords
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