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Symmetric Wilson Loops beyond leading order

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-01-11 v3

Abstract

We study the circular Wilson loop in the symmetric representation of U(N) in N=4\mathcal{N} = 4 super-Yang-Mills (SYM). In the large N limit, we computed the exponentially-suppressed corrections for strong coupling, which suggests non-perturbative physics in the dual holographic theory. We also computed the next-to-leading order term in 1/N, and the result matches with the exact result from the k-fundamental representation.

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@article{arxiv.1610.02914,
  title  = {Symmetric Wilson Loops beyond leading order},
  author = {Xinyi Chen-Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.02914},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

18 pages. v3: same text as the published version in SciPost, small changes respect older versions