QCD in curved space-time: A conformal bag model

Abstract

We construct an effective low energy Lagrangian using constraints imposed by the renormalization group. Degrees of freedom are gluons and a scalar glueball. This effective theory has a dual description as classical gluodynamics on a curved conformal background. Color fields are dynamically confined, and the strong coupling freezes at distances larger than the glueball size. We make specific predictions (in particular, on the ${N}_{c}$ dependence of glueball properties) which can be tested in lattice simulations of gluodynamics.