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`A new model for confinement' 

Abstract: We propose a new approach towards the understanding of confinement. 
Starting from an anisotropic five dimensional pure gauge theory, we approach 
a second order phase transition where the system reduces dimensionally. 
Dimensional reduction is realized via localization of the gauge and scalar 
degrees of freedom on four dimensional branes. The gauge coupling deriving 
from the brane Wilson loop observable runs like an asymptotically free 
coupling at short distance, while it exhibits clear signs of string formation 
at long distance. The regularization used is the lattice. We take the 
continuum limit by keeping the ratio of the lattice spacing in the brane over 
the lattice spacing along the extra dimension constant and smaller than one.
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