Supersymmetric Wilson loops on S^3
| dc.creator | Drukker, Nadav | |
| dc.creator | Giombi, Simone | |
| dc.creator | Ricci, Riccardo | |
| dc.creator | Trancanelli, Diego | |
| dc.date | 2007-11-20 | |
| dc.date | 2008-04-27 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T11:38:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T11:38:51Z | |
| dc.description | This paper studies in great detail a family of supersymmetric Wilson loop operators in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory we have recently found. For a generic curve on an S^3 in space-time the loops preserve two supercharges but we will also study special cases which preserve 4, 8 and 16 supercharges. For certain loops we find the string theory dual explicitly and for the general case we show that string solutions satisfy a first order differential equation. This equation expresses the fact that the strings are pseudo-holomorphic with respect to a novel almost complex structure we construct on AdS_4 x S^2. We then discuss loops restricted to S^2 and provide evidence that they can be calculated in terms of similar observables in purely bosonic YM in two dimensions on the sphere. | |
| dc.description | Latex, 84 pages, 4 figures. v2: minor changes, references added; to appear in JHEP | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3226 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3226 | |
| dc.identifier | JHEP0805:017,2008 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/05/017 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/199711 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Supersymmetric Wilson loops on S^3 | |
| dc.type | text |