Higher Rank Wilson Loops in N = 2* Super-Yang-Mills Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-02-16 v2
Abstract
The N=2* Super-Yang-Mills theory (SYM*) undergoes an infinite sequence of large-N quantum phase transitions. We compute expectation values of Wilson loops in k-symmetric and antisymmetric representations of the SU(N) gauge group in this theory and show that the same phenomenon that causes the phase transitions at finite coupling leads to a non-analytic dependence of Wilson loops on k/N when the coupling is strictly infinite, thus making the higher-representation Wilson loops ideal holographic probes of the non-trivial phase structure of SYM*.
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@article{arxiv.1502.01942,
title = {Higher Rank Wilson Loops in N = 2* Super-Yang-Mills Theory},
author = {Xinyi Chen-Lin and Konstantin Zarembo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.01942},
year = {2015}
}
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33 pages, 6 figures. v2: a new reference added