The QCD Membrane

Abstract

In this paper we study spatially quenched, SU(N) Yang-Mills theory in the large-N limit. The resulting reduced action shows the same formal look as the Banks-Fischler-Shenker-Susskind M-theory action. The Weyl-Wigner-Moyal symbol of this matrix model is the Moyal deformation of a p(=2)-brane action. Thus, the large-N limit of the spatially quenched SU(N) Yang-Mills is seen to describe a dynamical membrane. By assuming spherical symmetry we compute the mass spectrum of this object in the WKB approximation.

14 pages, LaTeX, non figures; accepted for publication in Class.Quant. Grav

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• Komaba Lectures on Noncommutative Solitons and D-Branes
• Quenched, Minisuperspace, Bosonic p-brane Propagator
• p-Branes from Generalized Yang-Mills Theory

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