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Resumming planar diagrams for the N=6 ABJM cusped Wilson loop in light-cone gauge

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-11-21 v1

Abstract

We analyse a light-like cusped Wilson loop in N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons theory at both weak and strong coupling in light-cone gauge. At the second order in the 't Hooft coupling λ\lambda the correct cusp anomalous dimension Γcusp=ϕ/2λ2\Gamma_{\rm cusp}=-\phi / 2 \lambda^2 is recovered through a deformation of the contour that takes both rays of the cusp slightly off of the light-cone. The strong coupling behaviour is addressed by means of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for ladders of tree-level gauge propagators and ladders of one-loop corrected gauge propagators. It turns out that, as might be expected, the contribution of Chern-Simons tree-level propagators is insensitive of the cusp angle ϕ\phi. On the other hand, corrected propagators lead to an exponential large λ\lambda behaviour Γcuspexpλϕ\Gamma_{\rm cusp} \sim \exp\sqrt{\lambda\phi} which, though, disagrees with the AdS/CFT predictions in the power of ϕ\phi.

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@article{arxiv.1211.4859,
  title  = {Resumming planar diagrams for the N=6 ABJM cusped Wilson loop in light-cone gauge},
  author = {Daniele Marmiroli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.4859},
  year   = {2012}
}

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