  In this article, we extend the world sheet treatment of planar QCD in 1+2
dimensions from an earlier work. The starting point is a field theory that
lives on the world sheet, parametrized by the light cone variables. In the
present work, we generalize and extend the variational approach introduced
earlier to get sharper results. An iterative solution to the variational
equations leads to a solitonic ground state, and fluctuations around this
ground state signals formation of a string on the world sheet. At high
energies, the asymptotic limit of the string trajectory is linear, with
calculable corrections at lower energies.
