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The string/gauge theory correspondence in QCD

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Ideas about a duality between gauge fields and strings have been around for many decades. During the last ten years, these ideas have taken a much more concrete mathematical form. String descriptions of the strongly coupled dynamics of semi-realistic gauge theories, exhibiting confinement and chiral symmetry breaking, are now available. These provide remarkably simple ways to compute properties of the strongly coupled quark-gluon fluid phase, and also shed new light on various phenomenological models of hadron fragmentation. We present a review and highlight some exciting recent developments.

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Peeters, K., Zamaklar, M. The string/gauge theory correspondence in QCD. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 152, 113–138 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2007-00379-0

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