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Exact 1/4 BPS Loop - Chiral Primary Correlator

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

Correlation functions of 1/4 BPS Wilson loops with the infinite family of 1/2 BPS chiral primary operators are computed in N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Yang-Mills theory by summing planar ladder diagrams. Leading loop corrections to the sum are shown to vanish. The correlation functions are also computed in the strong-coupling limit by examining the supergravity dual of the loop-loop correlator. The strong coupling result is found to agree with the extrapolation of the planar ladders. The result is related to known correlators of 1/2 BPS Wilson loops and 1/2 BPS chiral primaries by a simple re-scaling of the coupling constant, similar to an observation of Drukker, hep-th/0605151, for the case of the 1/4 BPS loop vacuum expectation value.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0609158,
  title  = {Exact 1/4 BPS Loop - Chiral Primary Correlator},
  author = {Gordon W. Semenoff and Donovan Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0609158},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

17 pages, 4 figures, a few minor typos corrected