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Wilson Loop Renormalization Group Flows

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-28 v3

Abstract

The locally BPS Wilson loop and the pure gauge Wilson loop map under AdS/CFT duality to string world-sheet boundaries with standard and alternate quantizations of the world-sheet fields. This implies an RG flow between the two operators, which we verify at weak coupling. Many additional loop operators exist at strong coupling, with a rich pattern of RG flows.

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@article{arxiv.1104.5077,
  title  = {Wilson Loop Renormalization Group Flows},
  author = {Joseph Polchinski and James Sully},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.5077},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 p, 2 figures. v3: Title change, expanded treatment of RG flows

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