In this paper we present a family of supersymmetric Wilson loops of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in Minkowski space. Our examples focus on curves restricted to hyperbolic submanifolds, H_3 and H_2, of space-time. Generically they preserve two supercharges, but in special cases more, including a case which has not been discussed before, of the hyperbolic line, conformal to the straight line and circle, which is half-BPS. We discuss some general properties of these Wilson loops and their string duals and study special examples in more detail. Generically the string duals propagate on a complexification of AdS_5 x S^5 and in some specific examples the compact sphere is effectively replaced by a de-Sitter space.
@article{arxiv.0902.4586,
title = {BPS Wilson loops in N=4 SYM: Examples on hyperbolic submanifolds of space-time},
author = {Volker Branding and Nadav Drukker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.4586},
year = {2009}
}