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Wilson Loop in N = 4 Super Yang‐Mills Theory
Author(s) -
Förste Stefan,
Ghoshal Debashis,
Theisen Stefan
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
fortschritte der physik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.469
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1521-3978
pISSN - 0015-8208
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-3978(20001)48:1/3<111::aid-prop111>3.0.co;2-v
Subject(s) - superstring theory , wilson loop , physics , loop (graph theory) , string (physics) , quark , yang–mills theory , mathematical physics , string theory , dual (grammatical number) , yang–mills existence and mass gap , particle physics , theoretical physics , quantum electrodynamics , supersymmetry , gauge theory , mathematics , philosophy , combinatorics , linguistics
The Wilson loop in N = 4 super Yang‐Mills theory admits a dual description as a macroscopic string configuration in the adS/CFT correspondence. We discuss the correction to the quark anti‐quark potential arising from the fluctuations of the superstring.