scholarly journals Exact 1/N expansion of Wilson loop correlators in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 Super-Yang-Mills theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Mück
Keyword(s):  
Matrix Model ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Model Solution ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
Combinatorial Formula ◽  
Expectation Value ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Hooft Coupling ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Super Yang Mills Theory

Abstract Supersymmetric circular Wilson loops in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 Super-Yang-Mills theory are discussed starting from their Gaussian matrix model representations. Previous results on the generating functions of Wilson loops are reviewed and extended to the more general case of two different loop contours, which is needed to discuss coincident loops with opposite orientations. A combinatorial formula representing the connected correlators of multiply wound Wilson loops in terms of the matrix model solution is derived. Two new results are obtained on the expectation value of the circular Wilson loop, the expansion of which into a series in 1/N and to all orders in the ’t Hooft coupling λ was derived by Drukker and Gross about twenty years ago. The connected correlators of two multiply wound Wilson loops with arbitrary winding numbers are calculated as a series in 1/N. The coefficient functions are derived not only as power series in λ, but also to all orders in λ by expressing them in terms of the coefficients of the Drukker and Gross series. This provides an efficient way to calculate the 1/N series, which can probably be generalized to higher-point correlators.

scholarly journals On topological recursion for Wilson loops in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 SYM at strong coupling

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Beccaria ◽  
A. Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Strong Coupling ◽  
Matrix Model ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
Expectation Value ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Usual Procedure ◽  
Topological Recursion ◽  
Sample Application ◽  
Single Trace ◽  
Genus Expansion

Abstract We consider U(N) $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory and discuss how to extract the strong coupling limit of non-planar corrections to observables involving the $$ \frac{1}{2} $$ 1 2 -BPS Wilson loop. Our approach is based on a suitable saddle point treatment of the Eynard-Orantin topological recursion in the Gaussian matrix model. Working directly at strong coupling we avoid the usual procedure of first computing observables at finite planar coupling λ, order by order in 1/N, and then taking the λ ≫ 1 limit. In the proposed approach, matrix model multi-point resolvents take a simplified form and some structures of the genus expansion, hardly visible at low order, may be identified and rigorously proved. As a sample application, we consider the expectation value of multiple coincident circular supersymmetric Wilson loops as well as their correlator with single trace chiral operators. For these quantities we provide novel results about the structure of their genus expansion at large tension, generalising recent results in arXiv:2011.02885.

NULL ZIG-ZAG WILSON LOOPS IN $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (08) ◽  
pp. 627-639
Author(s):  
ZHIFENG XIE
Keyword(s):  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
Finite Part ◽  
Expectation Value ◽  
Line Segments ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Circular Shape ◽  
The One ◽  
Arbitrary Shapes

In planar [Formula: see text] supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory we have studied one kind of (locally) BPS Wilson loops composed of a large number of light-like segments, i.e. null zig-zags. These contours oscillate around smooth underlying spacelike paths. At one-loop in perturbation theory, we have compared the finite part of the expectation value of null zig-zags to the finite part of the expectation value of non-scalar-coupled Wilson loops whose contours are the underlying smooth spacelike paths. In arXiv:0710.1060 [hep-th] it was argued that these quantities are equal for the case of a rectangular Wilson loop. Here we present a modest extension of this result to zig-zags of circular shape and zig-zags following non-parallel, disconnected line segments and show analytically that the one-loop finite part is indeed that given by the smooth spacelike Wilson loop without coupling to scalars which the zig-zag contour approximates. We make some comments regarding the generalization to arbitrary shapes.

scholarly journals Giant Wilson loops and AdS2/dCFT1

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Giombi ◽  
Jiaqi Jiang ◽  
Shota Komatsu
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Functions ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Large Rank ◽  
Hooft Coupling ◽  
Multiple Integrals ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract The 1/2-BPS Wilson loop in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory is an important and well-studied example of conformal defect. In particular, much work has been done for the correlation functions of operator insertions on the Wilson loop in the fundamental representation. In this paper, we extend such analyses to Wilson loops in the large-rank symmetric and antisymmetric representations, which correspond to probe D3 and D5 branes with AdS2× S2 and AdS2× S4 worldvolume geometries, ending at the AdS5 boundary along a one-dimensional contour. We first compute the correlation functions of protected scalar insertions from supersymmetric localization, and obtain a representation in terms of multiple integrals that are similar to the eigenvalue integrals of the random matrix, but with important differences. Using ideas from the Fermi Gas formalism and the Clustering method, we evaluate their large N limit exactly as a function of the ’t Hooft coupling. The results are given by simple integrals of polynomials that resemble the Q-functions of the Quantum Spectral Curve, with integration measures depending on the number of insertions. Next, we study the correlation functions of fluctuations on the probe D3 and D5 branes in AdS. We compute a selection of three- and four-point functions from perturbation theory on the D-branes, and show that they agree with the results of localization when restricted to supersymmetric kinematics. We also explain how the difference of the internal geometries of the D3 and D5 branes manifests itself in the localization computation.

scholarly journals Born-Oppenheimer quantization of the matrix model for N=1 super-Yang-Mills theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Verónica Errasti Díez ◽  
Mahul Pandey ◽  
Sachindeo Vaidya
Keyword(s):  
Matrix Model ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Super Yang Mills Theory

scholarly journals On three-point functions in ABJM and the latitude Wilson loop

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco S. Bianchi
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Group ◽  
Matrix Model ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Weak Coupling ◽  
Structure Constant ◽  
Loop Order ◽  
Expectation Value ◽  
The Matrix

Abstract I consider three-point functions of twist-one operators in ABJM at weak coupling. I compute the structure constant of correlators involving one twist-one un-protected operator and two protected ones for a few finite values of the spin, up to two-loop order. As an application I enforce a limit on the gauge group ranks, in which I relate the structure constant for three chiral primary operators to the expectation value of a supersymmetric Wilson loop. Such a relation is then used to perform a successful five-loop test on the matrix model conjectured to describe the supersymmetric Wilson loop.

scholarly journals Scrambling in Yang-Mills

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert de Mello Koch ◽  
Eunice Gandote ◽  
Augustine Larweh Mahu
Keyword(s):  
Relaxation Time ◽  
Weak Coupling ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Hooft Coupling ◽  
Dilatation Operator ◽  
Super Yang Mills Theory

Abstract Acting on operators with a bare dimension ∆ ∼ N2 the dilatation operator of U(N) $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory defines a 2-local Hamiltonian acting on a graph. Degrees of freedom are associated with the vertices of the graph while edges correspond to terms in the Hamiltonian. The graph has p ∼ N vertices. Using this Hamiltonian, we study scrambling and equilibration in the large N Yang-Mills theory. We characterize the typical graph and thus the typical Hamiltonian. For the typical graph, the dynamics leads to scrambling in a time consistent with the fast scrambling conjecture. Further, the system exhibits a notion of equilibration with a relaxation time, at weak coupling, given by t ∼ $$ \frac{\rho }{\lambda } $$ ρ λ with λ the ’t Hooft coupling.

scholarly journals THE HAGEDORN TRANSITION AND THE MATRIX MODEL FOR STRINGS

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (26) ◽  
pp. 2085-2094 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. SATHIAPALAN
Keyword(s):  
Matrix Model ◽  
Light Cone ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Matrix Formalism ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Large N ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
The Continuum ◽  
String Worldsheet

We use the matrix formalism to investigate what happens to strings above the Hagedorn temperature. We show that is not a limiting temperature but a temperature at which the continuum string picture breaks down. We study a collection of N D-0-branes arranged to form a string having N units of light-cone momentum. We find that at high temperatures the favored phase is one where the string worldsheet has disappeared and the low-energy degrees of freedom consists of N2 massless particles ("gluons"). The nature of the transition is very similar to the deconfinement transition in large-N Yang–Mills theories.

scholarly journals Stringy corrections to the Wilson loop in Script N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory

1999 ◽  
Vol 1999 (08) ◽  
pp. 013-013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Förste ◽  
Debashis Ghoshal ◽  
Stefan Theisen
Keyword(s):  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Super Yang Mills Theory

scholarly journals Twistor Parametrization of Locally BPS Super-Wilson Loops

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Vergu
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Function ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Scalar Coupling ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
The One

We consider the kinematics of the locally BPS super-Wilson loop in N=4 super-Yang-Mills with scalar coupling from a twistorial point of view. We find that the kinematics can be described either as supersymmetrized pure spinors or as a point in the product of two super-Grassmannian manifolds G2∣2(4∣4)×G2∣2(4∣4). In this description of the kinematics the scalar–scalar correlation function appearing in the one-loop evaluation of the super-Wilson loop can be neatly written as a sum of four superdeterminants.

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