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Spin chain integrability in non-supersymmetric Wilson loops

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-12-26 v2

Abstract

We study the 1-loop dilatation operator for insertions of composite operators in a generalized Wilson loop in N=4{\cal N}=4 super Yang-Mills, which interpolates between the supersymmetric Wilson-Maldacena loop and the ordinary Wilson loop with no scalar coupling. For SO(6)SO(6) scalar insertions, we show that the 1-loop dilatation operator is integrable for the endpoints of the interpolation, i.e. either for the Wilson-Maldacena or the ordinary Wilson loop. Moreover, we also show that integrability persists for SU(23)SU(2|3) insertions in the ordinary Wilson loop, even when the term making the spin chain length dynamical is included.

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@article{arxiv.1810.04643,
  title  = {Spin chain integrability in non-supersymmetric Wilson loops},
  author = {Diego Correa and Matias Leoni and Solange Luque},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.04643},
  year   = {2018}
}

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19 pages, 3 figures, references added

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