Smooth Wilson loops in N=4 non-chiral superspace
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2015-12
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We consider a supersymmetric Wilson loop operator for 4d N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory which is the natural object dual to the AdS 5 × S 5 superstring in the AdS/CFT correspondence. It generalizes the traditional bosonic 1/2 BPS Maldacena-Wilson loop operator and completes recent constructions in the literature to smooth (non-light-like) loops in the full N=4 non-chiral superspace. This Wilson loop operator enjoys global super-conformal and local kappa-symmetry of which a detailed discussion is given. Moreover, the finiteness of its vacuum expectation value is proven at leading order in perturbation theory. We determine the leading vacuum expectation value for general paths both at the component field level up to quartic order in anti-commuting coordinates and in the full non-chiral superspace in suitable gauges. Finally, we discuss loops built from quadric splines joined in such a way that the path derivatives are continuous at the intersection.
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2015 (12)
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140
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Wilson; ’t Hooft and Polyakov loops; AdS-CFT Correspondence; Extended Supersymmetry; Superspaces
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03896 - Beisert, Niklas / Beisert, Niklas
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137616 - Algebraic Foundations of Integrability in the Planar Gauge/String Duality (SNF)