title: Quark confinement and the renormalization group.
abstract: Recent approaches to quark confinement are reviewed, with an emphasis on their connection to renormalization group (RG) methods. Basic concepts related to confinement are introduced: the string tension, Wilson loops and Polyakov lines, string breaking, string tension scaling laws, centre symmetry breaking and the deconfinement transition at non-zero temperature. Current topics discussed include confinement on R(3)×S(1), the real-space RG, the functional RG and the Schwinger-Dyson equation approach to confinement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA. mco@physics.wustl.edu
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Ogilvie