STRING FINE-TUNING

Abstract

We develop further a new geometrical model of a discretized string, proposed in Ref. 1, and establish its basic physical properties. The model can be considered as the natural extension of the usual Feynman amplitude of the random walks to random surfaces. Both amplitudes coincide in the case, when the surface degenerates into a single particle world line. We extend the model to open surfaces as well. The boundary contribution is proportional to the full length of the boundary, and the coefficient of proportionality can be treated as a hopping parameter of the quarks. In the limit when this parameter tends to infinity, the theory is essentially simplified. We prove that the contribution of a given triangulation to the partition function is finite and have found the explicit form for the upper bound. The question of the convergence of the full partition function remains open. In this model the string tension may vanish at the critical point, if the last one exists, and possesses a nontrivial scaling limit. The model contains hidden fermionic variables and can be considered as an independent model of hadrons.