Confinement in large N gauge theories

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We report some recent results obtained for large N gauge theories which support the idea of volume reduction.

• Results for the string tension of the Twisted Eguchi-Kawai model match with those obtained from extrapolation from finite N.
• Determination of other observables is currently under way.
• Application of the twisted reduction idea to the case of 1 or 2 flavours of quarks in the adjoint representation of the group offers promising results.