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The 1/N correction in the D3-brane description of circular Wilson loop at strong coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-07-02 v3

Abstract

We compute the one-loop correction to the probe D3-brane action in AdS5 x S5 expanded around the classical Drukker-Fiol solution ending on a circle at the boundary. It is given essentially by the logarithm of the one-loop partition function of an Abelian N=4{\cal N}=4 vector multiplet in AdS2 x S2 geometry. This one-loop correction is expected to describe the subleading 1/N term in the expectation value of circular Wilson loop in the totally symmetric rank k representation in SU(N) SYM theory at strong coupling. In the limit k << N when the circular Wilson loop expectation values for the symmetric representation and for the product of k fundamental representations are expected to match we find that this one-loop D3-brane correction agrees with the gauge theory result for the k-fundamental case.

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@article{arxiv.1404.4952,
  title  = {The 1/N correction in the D3-brane description of circular Wilson loop at strong coupling},
  author = {E. I. Buchbinder and A. A. Tseytlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.4952},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

20 pages; v2: reference added, misprints corrected; v3: minor corrections, reference added