Wilson Loops in N=2 Super-Yang-Mills from Matrix Model
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-10-05 v3
Abstract
We compute the expectation value of the circular Wilson loop in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with N_f=2N hypermultiplets. Our results indicate that the string tension in the dual string theory scales as the logarithm of the 't Hooft coupling.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1106.5763,
title = {Wilson Loops in N=2 Super-Yang-Mills from Matrix Model},
author = {F. Passerini and K. Zarembo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.5763},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
37 pages, 9 figures; v2: Numerical factors corrected, simple derivation of Wilson loop and discussion of continuation to complex lambda added; v3: instanton partition function re-analyzed in order to take into account a contribution of the hypermultiplets