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Calibrated Surfaces and Supersymmetric Wilson Loops

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We study the dual gravity description of supersymmetric Wilson loops whose expectation value is unity. They are described by calibrated surfaces that end on the boundary of anti de-Sitter space and are pseudo-holomorphic with respect to an almost complex structure on an eight-dimensional slice of AdS_5 x S^5. The regularized area of these surfaces vanishes, in agreement with field theory non-renormalization theorems for the corresponding operators.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0604058,
  title  = {Calibrated Surfaces and Supersymmetric Wilson Loops},
  author = {A. Dymarsky and S. Gubser and Z. Guralnik and J. Maldacena},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0604058},
  year   = {2009}
}

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28 pages, 2 figures