Supersymmetric Wilson loops
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v4
Abstract
I construct 1/16, 1/8 and 1/4 BPS Wilson loops in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and argue that expectation values of 1/4 BPS loops do not receive quantum corrections. At strong coupling, non-renormalization of supersymmetric Wilson loops implies subtle cancellations in the partition function of the AdS string with special boundary conditions. The cancellations are shown to occur in the semiclassical approximation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0205160,
title = {Supersymmetric Wilson loops},
author = {K. Zarembo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0205160},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
16 pages; v2: misprints corrected; v3: comments on superconformal invariance and a reference added, version to be published in Nucl. Phys. B; v4: discussion of N=2 supersymmetric Wilson loops corrected