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Anti-deSitter Space and Confinement

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A qualitative introduction to the duality between gauge theories and string theory in anti-deSitter space. Calculation of the string tension in a confining gauge theory from the properties of a black hole horizon in AdS space.

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    Which is really U(1) × SU(N) gauge theory, since one gauge boson decouples from the rest.

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Greensite, J. (2020). Anti-deSitter Space and Confinement. In: An Introduction to the Confinement Problem. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 972. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51563-8_14

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