Light-Cone Wilson Loops and the String/Gauge Correspondence
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
We investigate a \Pi-shape Wilson loop in N=4 super Yang--Mills theory, which lies partially at the light-cone, and consider an associated open superstring in AdS_5 x S^5. We discuss how this Wilson loop determines the anomalous dimensions of conformal operators with large Lorentz spin and present an explicit calculation in perturbation theory to order \lambda. We find the minimal surface in the supergravity approximation, that reproduces the Gubser, Klebanov and Polyakov prediction for the anomalous dimensions at large \lambda=g_YM^2 N, and discuss its quantum-mechanical interpretation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0210256,
title = {Light-Cone Wilson Loops and the String/Gauge Correspondence},
author = {Yuri Makeenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0210256},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
17pp., Latex, 4 figures; v.2: factors of 2 put right