2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/39041Sum rules -- relating the static quark potential V(R) to the spatial distribution of the action and energy in the colour fields of flux-tubes -- are applied in three ways: 1) To extract generalised beta-functions: 2) As a consistency check for the use of excited gluon flux-tubes and as an estimate of the quark self-energies: 3) To extract approximate sum rules using a simplified form of V(R). Also the flux-tube profiles are compared with hadronic string and flux-tube models.4 pages, 2 ps figures, Talk presented at Quark Confinement and The Hadron Spectrum II, June 1996, Como, ItalyHigh Energy Physics - Latticetext