Recent lattice results for the energy of gluonic excitations as a function of
quark separation are shown to correspond to transverse relativistic flux tube
vibration modes. For large quark separations all states appear to degenerate
into a few categories which are predicted uniquely, given the ground state.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX, references added and minor correction
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