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Wilson Loops in LargeNField Theories

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Maldacena, Juan·1998·Physical Review Letters
DOI 10.1103/physrevlett.80.4859
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We propose a method to calculate the expectation values of an operator similar to the Wilson loop in the large $N$ limit of field theories. We consider $N\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}=\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}4$ $(3+1)$-dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. The prescription involves calculating the area of a fundamental string world sheet in certain supergravity backgrounds. We also consider the case of coincident $M$-theory five-branes where one is led to calculating the area of $M$-theory two-branes. We briefly discuss the computation for $(2+1)$-dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with 16 supercharges which is nonconformal. In all of these cases, we calculate the energy of a quark-antiquark pair.

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Authors
Maldacena, J.
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Published
1998-06-01
Volume
80
Issue
22
Pages
4859-4862
ISSN
  • 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
  • 1079-7114
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.80.4859
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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