The QCD Membrane

In this paper we study spatially quenched, SU(N) Yang-Mills theory in the l arge-N limit. The resulting reduced action shows the same formal look as th e Banks-Fischler-Shenker-Susskind M-theory action. The Weyl-Wigner-Moyal sy mbol of this matrix model is the Moyal deformation of a p(= 2)-brane action . Thus, the large-N limit of the spatially quenched SU(N) Yang-Mills is see n to describe a dynamical membrane. By assuming spherical symmetry we compu te the mass spectrum of this object in the WKB approximation.