Hooft Vortices and Phases of Large N Gauge Theory
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It is shown that a pair of vortex and anti-vortex is completely screened in 2 + 1 dimensional Yang-Mills theory and 3 + 1 dimensional Yang-Mills theory in the strong coupling limit, based on the recent conjecture of Maldacena. This is consistent with the fact that these theories exhibit confinement.
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