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Effective String Theory of Vortices and Regge Trajectories

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-19 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Starting from a field theory containing classical vortex solutions, we obtain an effective string theory of these vortices as a path integral over the two transverse degrees of freedom of the string. We carry out a semiclassical expansion of this effective theory, and use it to obtain corrections to Regge trajectories due to string fluctuations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0006069,
  title  = {Effective String Theory of Vortices and Regge Trajectories},
  author = {M. Baker and R. Steinke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0006069},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

27 pages, revtex, 3 figures, corrected an error with the cutoff in appendix E (was previously D), added more discussion of Fig. 3, moved some material in section 9 to a new appendix