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Asymptotic Freedom and Dirichlet String Theory, UR-1288, ER-40685-737

Zhu Yang

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9211092

Abstract

Fixed angle scattering at high energy in a string theory with boundaries satisfying Dirichlet conditions (Dirichlet strings) in D=4 is shown to have logarithmic dependence on energy, in addition to the power-like behavior known before. High temperature free energy also depends logarithmically on temperature. Such a result could provide a matching mechanism between strings at long distance and asymptotic freedom at short distance, which is necessary for the reformulation of large-N QCD as a string theory.

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