Kinks in Time and Their Relation to Confinement
Abstract
The time dependent formation of an electric flux tube (fundamental string) is reviewed. The main tool used for analysis is the Spacelike brane, which is a kink in time of the rolling tachyon. Both the S-brane and rolling tachyon are attempts to extend the D-brane concept to time dependent backgrounds. While S-branes are similar to Euclidean counterparts of the more familiar timelike D-branes, S-branes can smoothly change their worldvolume signature from spacelike to timelike which we interpret as the formation of a topological defect.
- Publication:
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Color Confinement and Hadrons in Quantum Chromodynamics
- Pub Date:
- April 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789812702845_0048
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0309225
- Bibcode:
- 2004cchq.conf..480W
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of Confinement 2003