Wilson Loops in Strongly Coupled Noncommutative Gauge Theories
Abstract
We discuss Wilson loop averages in 4-dimensional non-commutative superYang-Mills theory using the dual supergravity description. We find that they exhibit a crossover from Coulomb type of behaviour for large loops, for which non-commutativity is unimportant, to area law for small loops, for which non-commutativity effects are large. The string tension, which can be read off from the area law, is controlled by the non-commutativity scale. The crossover itself, however, appears to involve loops of size of order the scale that is present in the supergravity solution. The existence of a minimum length scale and the area law in non-commutative super Yang-Mills theory provide further evidence for connection to an underlying string theory.Keywords
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