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Global AdS Picture of 1/2 BPS Wilson Loops

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-05-25 v3

Abstract

We study the holographic dual string configuration of 1/2 BPS circular Wilson loops in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory by using the global coordinate of AdS. The dual string worldsheet is given by the Poincare disk AdS_2 sitting at a constant global time slice of AdS_5. We also analyze the correlator of two concentric circular Wilson loops from the global AdS perspective and study the phase transition associated with the instability of annulus worldsheet connecting the two Wilson loops.

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@article{arxiv.0912.1844,
  title  = {Global AdS Picture of 1/2 BPS Wilson Loops},
  author = {Kazumi Okuyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.1844},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

14 pages, 3 figures, v2: discussion on two branches corrected, v3: reference added