Confinement, Turbulence and Diffraction Catastrophes

preprint2009arXivOpen access

Abstract

Many features of large N_c transition that occurs in the spectral density of Wilson loops as a function of loop area (observed recently in numerical simulations of Yang-Mills theory by Narayanan and Neuberger) can be captured by a simple Burgers equation used to model turbulence. Spectral shock waves that precede this asymptotic limit exhibit universal scaling with N_c, with indices that can be related to Berry indices for diffraction catastrophes.

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