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Flux Tube Spectra from Approximate Integrability at Low Energies

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We provide a detailed introduction to a method we recently proposed for calculating the spectrum of excitations of effective strings such as QCD flux tubes. The method relies on the approximate integrability of the low energy effective theory describing the flux tube excitations and is is based on the Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz (TBA). The approximate integrability is a consequence of the Lorentz symmetry of QCD. For excited states the convergence of the TBA technique is significantly better than that of the traditional perturbative approach. We apply the new technique to the lattice spectra for fundamental flux tubes in gluodynamics in D=3+1 and D=2+1, and to k-strings in gluodynamics in D=2+1. We identify a massive pseudoscalar resonance on the world sheet of the confining strings in SU(3) gluodynamics in D=3+1, and massive scalar resonances on the world sheet of k=2,3 strings in SU(6) gluodynamics in D=2+1.

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Effective strings and particles interacting in 3D: the Ising model

hep-th · 2026-04-09 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

In the 3D Ising model, a fluctuating domain wall interacts with bulk particles such that large-distance corrections to free energy and correlation tails are controlled by a single renormalized coupling λ in the nearly on-shell regime.

Yang-Mills Flux Tube in AdS II: Effective String Theory

hep-th · 2026-02-18 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Two-loop effective string theory observables for Yang-Mills flux tubes in large-radius AdS are computed via transcendentality ansatz bootstrap, with Padé resummation used to probe interpolation toward small-radius weak-coupling AdS.

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    Defect-induced symmetry breaking viewed from the AdS bulk enforces protected displacement and tilt operators in non-local boundary CFTs via Ward identities.

  • Effective strings and particles interacting in 3D: the Ising model hep-th · 2026-04-09 · unverdicted · none · ref 14

    In the 3D Ising model, a fluctuating domain wall interacts with bulk particles such that large-distance corrections to free energy and correlation tails are controlled by a single renormalized coupling λ in the nearly on-shell regime.

  • Yang-Mills Flux Tube in AdS II: Effective String Theory hep-th · 2026-02-18 · unverdicted · none · ref 58 · internal anchor

    Two-loop effective string theory observables for Yang-Mills flux tubes in large-radius AdS are computed via transcendentality ansatz bootstrap, with Padé resummation used to probe interpolation toward small-radius weak-coupling AdS.