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  "abstract": "We investigate the nontrivial dynamics on $\\mathbb{Z}_{F}$ domain walls and compute their tension in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) compactified on a circle with $N$ colors and $F < N$ massless fundamental flavors. In the process, we obtain insights on the $η'$ meson's potential in a regime where it is heavy and comparable in mass to other QCD resonances, as in Nature. We employ a center-stabilized compactification of QCD on a small circle of size $L$ with color-flavor twisted boundary conditions for the quarks. We demonstrate that probe particles in color representations of $N$-ality $N/\\mathrm{gcd}(N,F)$ are deconfined on the $\\mathbb{Z}_{F}$ domain walls whenever $N$ and $F$ are not coprime. This is reminiscent of deconfinement on axion domain walls in pure Yang--Mills. Finally, in the double scaling limit $N\\rightarrow \\infty$ keeping $NL$ and $F$ fixed, the infrared spectrum spans an emergent dimension. We establish that the $\\mathbb{Z}_{F}$ domain walls are dual to electrostatic charge distributions in this emergent dimension. This duality allows us to compute their tension analytically and find a different tension scaling at large-$N$ between $\\mathbb{Z}_{F}$ domain walls in QCD and axion domain walls in pure Yang--Mills, in center-stabilized compactifications.",
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  "published": "2026-10-19",
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  "title": "Deconfinement on $\\mathbb{Z}_{F}$ and Axion Domain Walls",
  "title_text": "Deconfinement on ℤ_F and Axion Domain Walls",
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