HADRONIC AND SUPERSYMMETRIC STRING STATES IN CHROMODYNAMICS

Previous discussions of two of the authors (JLG, AN) are extended to chromodynamics. From Wilson loop integrals, solutions of open-string dynamical equations for infinite slope of Regge trajectories are obtained. In classical chromodynamics, they describe mesons and baryons as open strings which can break in close analogy with dual models. For supersymmetric chromodynamics a supersymmetric extension of the Wilson loop is derived which leads to the dynamics of closed strings with an additional continuous fermionic degree of freedom along the loop. © 1979.