SU (N) gauge theories at large N

B Lucini, M Panero - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
We review the theoretical developments and conceptual advances that stemmed from the
generalization of QCD to the limit of a large number of color charges, originally proposed by't …

Beyond the Standard Model Cocktail: A Modern and Comprehensive Review of the Major Open Puzzles in Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology with a Focus …

Y Gouttenoire - 2023 - books.google.com
This book provides a remarkable and complete survey of important questions at the interface
between theoretical particle physics and cosmology. After discussing the theoretical and …

String fragmentation in supercooled confinement and implications for dark matter

I Baldes, Y Gouttenoire, F Sala - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract A strongly-coupled sector can feature a supercooled confinement transition in the
early universe. We point out that, when fundamental quanta of the strong sector are swept …

Glueballs and k-strings in SU (N) gauge theories: Calculations with improved operators

B Lucini, M Teper, U Wenger - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We test a variety of blocking and smearing algorithms for constructing glueball and string
wave-functionals, and find some with much improved overlaps onto the lightest states. We …

All-genus calculation of Wilson loops using D-branes

N Drukker, B Fiol - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
The standard prescription for calculating a Wilson loop in the AdS/CFT correspondence is by
a string world-sheet ending along the loop at the boundary of AdS. For a multiply wrapped …

1-form symmetry versus large N QCD

A Cherman, T Jacobson, M Neuzil - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
JHEP02(2023)192 Page 1 JHEP02(2023)192 Published for SISSA by Springer Received:
November 1, 2022 Revised: December 1, 2022 Accepted: January 31, 2023 Published …

Non-Abelian Meissner effect in Yang-Mills theories at weak coupling

A Gorsky, M Shifman, A Yung - … Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2005 - APS
We present a weak-coupling Yang-Mills model supporting non-Abelian magnetic flux tubes
and non-Abelian confined magnetic monopoles. In the dual description the magnetic flux …

Symmetries, universes and phases of QCD2 with an adjoint Dirac fermion

JA Damia, G Galati, L Tizzano - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025 - Springer
A bstract We study 2d SU (N) QCD with an adjoint Dirac fermion. Assuming that the IR limit
of the massless theory is captured by a WZW coset CFT, we show that this CFT can be …

Casimir scaling and renormalization of Polyakov loops in large-N gauge theories

A Mykkänen, M Panero, K Rummukainen - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012 - Springer
A bstract We study Casimir scaling and renormalization properties of Polyakov loops in
different irreducible representations in SU (N) gauge theories; in particular, we investigate …

From super-Yang–Mills theory to QCD: Planar equivalence and its implications

A Armoni, M Shifman, G Veneziano - From Fields to Strings …, 2005 - World Scientific
We review and extend our recent work on the planar (large N) equivalence between gauge
theories with varying degrees of supersymmetry. The main emphasis is on the planar …