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We investigate elliptical Wilson loops in ${\cal N}=4$ Super Yang--Mills theory at weak and strong coupling for small values of the eccentricity. We obtain analytical results for the vacuum expectation value of the Wilson loop in the form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Thales Azevedo , Alfonso Ballon-Bayona , Leonardo Pazito

The algebraic curve (finite-gap) classification of rotating string solutions was very important in the development of integrability through comparison with analogous structures at weak coupling. The classification was based on the analysis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Romuald A. Janik , Pawel Laskos-Grabowski

We compute the exact vacuum expectation value of 1/2 BPS circular Wilson loops of ${\cal N}$=4 U(N) super Yang-Mills in arbitrary irreducible representations. By localization arguments, the computation reduces to evaluating certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Bartomeu Fiol , Genis Torrents

We compute for the first time the two-loop corrections to arbitrary n-gon lightlike Wilson loops in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, using efficient numerical methods. The calculation is motivated by the remarkable agreement between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-06-29 Charalampos Anastasiou , Andreas Brandhuber , Paul Heslop , Valentin V. Khoze , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

In this Letter, we explore nonrelativistic string solutions in various subsectors of the $ SU(1,2|3) $ SMT strings that correspond to different spin groups and satisfy the respective BPS bounds. In particular, we carry out an explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-14 Dibakar Roychowdhury

We investigate the supersymmetric Wilson loops in $d=3$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Chern-Simons-matter theory obtained from non-chiral orbifold of ABJM theory. We work in both Minkowski spacetime and Euclidean space, and we construct 1/4 and 1/2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-04 Hao Ouyang , Jun-Bao Wu , Jia-ju Zhang

We consider semiclassical computation of 3-point correlation functions of (BPS or non-BPS) string states represented by vertex operators carrying large charges in S5. We argue that the AdS5 part of the construction of relevant semiclassical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 E. I. Buchbinder , A. A. Tseytlin

In the context of AdS/CFT we provide analytical support for the proposed duality between a Wilson loop with a cusp, the cusp anomalous dimension, and the meson model constructed from a rotating open string with high angular momentum. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 R. Espíndola , J. Antonio García

We consider worldsheet correlation functions for strings in AdS_5 x S^5 using a light-cone gauge for the worldsheet theory. We compute the saddle-point approximation to three-point functions of BMN vertex operators, all with large charges,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Thomas Klose , Tristan McLoughlin

The N = 2, 4 superconformal symmetry constraints in d = 4 for four point functions of chiral primary 1/2-BPS operators are derived. The operators are described by symmetric traceless tensors of the internal R-symmetry group. A substantial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-06 Michael Nirschl

We develop a systematic approach to evaluating AdS loop amplitudes based on the spectral (or "split") representation of bulk-to-bulk propagators, which re-expresses loop diagrams in terms of spectral integrals and higher-point tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-03 Simone Giombi , Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

Recently there has been progress on the calculation of n-point correlation functions with two "heavy" (with large quantum numbers) states at strong coupling. We extend these findings by computing three-point functions corresponding to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-11 D. Arnaudov , R. C. Rashkov , T. Vetsov

We initiate the study of $1/2$ BPS Wilson loops in $\mathcal{N}=4$ Chern-Simons-matter theories in three dimensions. We consider a circular or linear quiver with Chern-Simons levels $k$, $-k$ and $0$, and focus on loops preserving one of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-17 Michael Cooke , Nadav Drukker , Diego Trancanelli

Anomalous dimensions of Wilson operators with large Lorentz spin scale logarithmically with the spin. Recent multi-loop QCD calculations of twist-two anomalous dimensions revealed the existence of interesting structure of the subleading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Basso , G. P. Korchemsky

As a continuation of the study (in arXiv:2102.07696 and arXiv:2104.12625) of strong-coupling expansion of non-planar corrections in $\mathcal N=2$ 4d superconformal models we consider two special theories with gauge groups $SU(N)$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-28 M. Beccaria , G. V. Dunne , A. A. Tseytlin

Recently, Freyhult, Rej and Staudacher (FRS) proposed an integral equation determining the leading logarithmic term of the anomalous dimension of sl(2) twist-operators in N=4 SYM for large Lorentz spin M and twist L at fixed j = L/log(M).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-02 Matteo Beccaria

For three-dimensional ${\cal N}=4$ super Chern-Simons-matter theories associated to necklace quivers $U(N_0) \times U(N_1) \times \cdots U(N_{2r-1}) $, we study at quantum level the two kinds of 1/2 BPS Wilson loop operators recently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-30 Luca Griguolo , Matias Leoni , Andrea Mauri , Silvia Penati , Domenico Seminara

We calculate Wilson loops of various sizes up to 20 loops in SU(3) pure lattice gauge theory at different lattice sizes for Wilson gauge action using the technique of numerical stochastic perturbation theory. This allows us to investigate…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-05-30 R. Horsley , G. Hotzel , E. -M. Ilgenfritz , R. Millo , Y. Nakamura , H. Perlt , P. E. L. Rakow , G. Schierholz , A. Schiller

We propose an alternative method to study the saddle point equation in the strong coupling limit for the Wilson loop in $\mathcal{N}=2$ D=4 super Yang-Mills with an SU(N) gauge group and 2N hypermultiplets. This method is based on an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Jean-Emile Bourgine

We extend recent remarkable progress in the comparison of the dynamical energy spectrum of rotating closed strings in AdS_5xS^5 and the scaling weights of the corresponding non-near-BPS operators in planar N=4 supersymmetric gauge theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 N. Beisert , S. Frolov , M. Staudacher , A. A. Tseytlin