Infratier Closure Physics - Strong Confinement and Hadronization Geometry A static force test for infratier closure physics

Infratier closure physics proposes that part of the energy of separated color sources is the cost of a geometric defect. For a potential proportional to separation times that defect, we find the family giving constant tension and show that a freely chosen determinant can represent any continuous force on a finite interval of positive separations. The static force in continuum pure SU(3) lattice theory at is 1.1623 times its value at . We then specify a radial equation for the internal volume. The observed decrease in force selects its compressed branch. A curvature-calibrated calculation comes close to the force ratio on the coarsest lattice, yet misses the curvature between the calibration points. Central values on two finer lattices violate a necessary condition for compression. A continuum curvature test remains open. With dynamical quarks, string breaking supplies a separate test of channel mixing.