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Wilson Loops in the Large N Limit at Finite Temperature

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

Using a proposal of Maldacena we compute in the framework of the supergravity description of N coincident D3 branes the energy of a quark anti-quark pair in the large N limit of U(N) N=4 SYM in four dimensions at finite temperature.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9803137,
  title  = {Wilson Loops in the Large N Limit at Finite Temperature},
  author = {A. Brandhuber and N. Itzhaki and J. Sonnenschein and S. Yankielowicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9803137},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, LaTeX2e, 5 eps figures; references added and corrected, typos corrected