# Yang-Mills glueballs as closed bosonic strings

@article{Dubovsky2016YangMillsGA,
title={Yang-Mills glueballs as closed bosonic strings},
author={Sergei Dubovsky and Guzm{\'a}n Hern{\'a}ndez-Chifflet},
journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
year={2016},
volume={2017},
pages={1-35}
}
• Published 29 November 2016
• Physics
• Journal of High Energy Physics
A bstractWe put forward the Axionic String Ansatz (ASA), which provides a unified description for the worldsheet dynamics of confining strings in pure Yang-Mills theory both in D = 3 and D = 4 space-time dimensions. The ASA is motivated by the excitation spectrum of long confining strings, as measured on a lattice, and by recently constructed integrable axionic non-critical string models. According to the ASA, pure gluodynamics in 3D is described by a non-critical bosonic string theory without…
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