Speaker
Dr
Alexandr Yelnikov
(City College of New York)
Description
We carry out further analysis of the Hamiltonian approach to Yang-Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions which helps to place the calculation of the vacuum wave function and the string tension in the context of a systematic expansion scheme. The solution of the Schrodinger equation is carried out recursively. The computation of correlators is re-expressed in terms of a two-dimensional chiral boson theory. The effective action for this theory is calculated to first order in our expansion scheme and to the fourth order in a kinematic expansion parameter. The resulting corrections to the string tension are shown to be very small, in the range -0.3% to -2.8%, moving our prediction closer to the recent lattice estimates.
Author
Dr
Alexandr Yelnikov
(City College of New York)
Co-authors
Dr
Dimitra Karabali
(Lehman College of the CUNY)
Dr
V. P. Nair
(City College of New York)
