More supersymmetric Wilson loops

By N. Drukker, S. Giombi, R. Ricci, Diego Trancanelli. 2007

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We present a large new family of Wilson loop operators in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. For an arbitrary curve on the three dimensional sphere one can add certain scalar couplings to the Wilson loop so it preserves at least two supercharges. Some previously known loops, notably the 1/2 BPS circle, belong to this class, but we point out many more special cases which were not known before and could provide further tests of the AdS/CFT correspondence.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. N. Drukker
2. R. Roiban
3. A. Tseytlin
4. S. Giombi
5. L. Alday
6. S. Frolov
7. Joaquim Gomis
8. Diego Trancanelli

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. N. Drukker
2. S. Giombi
3. Joaquim Gomis
4. R. Roiban
5. T. Okuda
6. Diego Trancanelli
7. R. Ricci
8. J. Teschner

Citations in the corpus

• Half-BPS Wilson loop and AdS2/CFT1 (2017, background): “The relevant Wilson loops, first introduced in [68], are defined on generic contours on an S2 subspace of R4 (or S4), and couple to three of the scalar fields in the SYM theory, say 1, 2, 3, in a way prescribed by supersymmetry:”
• Gauge theory loop operators and Liouville theory (2009, background): “Luckily this is the case for a pair of non-intersecting loops on S(3), as was shown for N = 4 SYM in [54, 55].”
• Localization of Gauge Theory on a Four-Sphere and Supersymmetric Wilson Loops (2007, unknown): “There are some open questions and immediate directions in which one can proceed: (1) One can consider more general supersymmetric Wilson loops like studied in [28, 37, 51] and try to prove the conjectural relations of those with matrix models or two-dimensional super Yang-Mills theory.”
• Supersymmetric Wilson loops on S**3. (2007, methodology): “After going over the construction of the supersymmetric Wilson loops and presenting many examples, expanding on [35], in this part of the paper we will present completely new results on the general string solutions dual to those Wilson loops.”