scholarly journals Symmetric Wilson Loops beyond leading order

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinyi Chen-Lin
Keyword(s):  
Strong Coupling ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Order Term ◽  
Exact Result ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Fundamental Representation ◽  
Symmetric Representation ◽  
Yang Mills

We study the circular Wilson loop in the symmetric representation of U(N)U(N) in mathcal{N} = 4𝒩=4 super-Yang-Mills (SYM). In the large NN limit, we computed the exponentially-suppressed corrections for strong coupling, which suggests non-perturbative physics in the dual holographic theory. We also computed the next-to-leading order term in 1/N1/N, and the result matches with the exact result from the kk-fundamental representation.

scholarly journals Double-winding Wilson loops in SU(N) Yang-Mills theory – A criterion for testing the confinement models –

2018 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 12002
Author(s):  
Ryutaro Matsudo ◽  
Kei-Ichi Kondo ◽  
Akihiro Shibata
Keyword(s):  
Wilson Loop ◽  
String Tension ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Fundamental Representation ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Operator Relation ◽  
Higher Dimensional ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Area Law

We examine how the average of double-winding Wilson loops depends on the number of color N in the SU(N) Yang-Mills theory. In the case where the two loops C1 and C2 are identical, we derive the exact operator relation which relates the doublewinding Wilson loop operator in the fundamental representation to that in the higher dimensional representations depending on N. By taking the average of the relation, we find that the difference-of-areas law for the area law falloff recently claimed for N = 2 is excluded for N ⩾ 3, provided that the string tension obeys the Casimir scaling for the higher representations. In the case where the two loops are distinct, we argue that the area law follows a novel law (N − 3)A1/(N − 1) + A2 with A1 and A2(A1 < A2) being the minimal areas spanned respectively by the loops C1 and C2, which is neither sum-ofareas (A1 + A2) nor difference-of-areas (A2 − A1) law when (N ⩾ 3). Indeed, this behavior can be confirmed in the two-dimensional SU(N) Yang-Mills theory exactly.

scholarly journals Lattice study of area law for double-winding Wilson loops

2018 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 12010
Author(s):  
Akihiro Shibata ◽  
Seikou Kato ◽  
Kei-Ichi Kondo ◽  
Ryutaro Matsudo
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Monte Carlo Simulations ◽  
Strong Coupling ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Strong Coupling Expansion ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Lattice Monte Carlo ◽  
Area Law

We study the double-winding Wilson loops in the SU(N) Yang-Mills theory on the lattice. We discuss how the area law falloff of the double-winding Wilson loop average is modified by changing the enclosing contours C1 and C2 for various values of the number of color N. By using the strong coupling expansion, we evaluate the double-winding Wilson loop average in the lattice SU(N) Yang-Mills theory. Moreover, we compute the double-winding Wilson loop average by lattice Monte Carlo simulations for SU(2) and SU(3). We further discuss the results from the viewpoint of the Non-Abelian Stokes theorem in the higher representations.

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 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.

scholarly journals Wilson loops in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 SO(N) SYM and D-branes in AdS5 × ℝℙ5

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Giombi ◽  
Bendeguz Offertaler
Keyword(s):  
String Theory ◽  
Gauge Group ◽  
Strong Coupling ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Spinor Representation ◽  
Classical Action ◽  
Expectation Value ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Coupling Behavior ◽  
Type Iib String Theory

Abstract We study the half-BPS circular Wilson loop in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 super Yang-Mills with orthogonal gauge group. By supersymmetric localization, its expectation value can be computed exactly from a matrix integral over the Lie algebra of SO(N). We focus on the large N limit and present some simple quantitative tests of the duality with type IIB string theory in AdS5× ℝℙ5. In particular, we show that the strong coupling limit of the expectation value of the Wilson loop in the spinor representation of the gauge group precisely matches the classical action of the dual string theory object, which is expected to be a D5-brane wrapping a ℝℙ4 subspace of ℝℙ5. We also briefly discuss the large N, large λ limits of the SO(N) Wilson loop in the symmetric/antisymmetric representations and their D3/D5-brane duals. Finally, we use the D5-brane description to extract the leading strong coupling behavior of the “bremsstrahlung function” associated to a spinor probe charge, or equivalently the normalization of the two-point function of the displacement operator on the spinor Wilson loop, and obtain agreement with the localization prediction.

scholarly journals GLUON SCATTERING AMPLITUDES FROM GAUGE/STRING DUALITY AND INTEGRABILITY

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
YUJI SATOH
Keyword(s):  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
String Duality ◽  
Bethe Ansatz ◽  
Strong Coupling ◽  
Minimal Surfaces ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Sine Gordon Model

We discuss gluon scattering amplitudes/null-polygonal Wilson loops of [Formula: see text] super Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling based on the gauge/string duality and its underlying integrability. We focus on the amplitudes/Wilson loops corresponding to the minimal surfaces in AdS3, which are described by the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz equations of the homogeneous sine-Gordon model. Using conformal perturbation theory and an interesting relation between the g-function (boundary entropy) and the T-function, we derive analytic expansions around the limit where the Wilson loops become regular-polygonal. We also compare our analytic results with those at two loops, to find that the rescaled remainder functions are close to each other for all multi-point amplitudes.

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.

ASYMPTOTIC AdS STRING SOLUTIONS FOR NULL POLYGONAL WILSON LOOPS IN R1,2

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (30) ◽  
pp. 2555-2569 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHIJONG RYANG
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotic Behavior ◽  
Strong Coupling ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Scattering Amplitude ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
String Solution ◽  
Reality Condition ◽  
Linear Problems ◽  
Two Parameters

For the asymptotic string solution in AdS3 which is represented by the AdS3 Poincaré coordinates and yields the planar multi-gluon scattering amplitude at strong coupling in arXiv:0904.0663, we express it by the AdS4 Poincaré coordinates and demonstrate that the hexagonal and octagonal Wilson loops surrounding the string surfaces take closed contours consisting of null vectors in R1,2 owing to the relations of Stokes matrices. For the tetragonal Wilson loop we construct a string solution characterized by two parameters by solving the auxiliary linear problems and demanding a reality condition, and analyze the asymptotic behavior of the solution in R1,2. The freedoms of two parameters are related with some conformal SO(2,4) transformations.

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