More supersymmetric Wilson loops

Nadav Drukker, Simone Giombi, Riccardo Ricci, and Diego Trancanelli
Phys. Rev. D 76, 107703 – Published 15 November 2007

Abstract

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.

  • Received 21 June 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.76.107703

©2007 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Nadav Drukker1,*, Simone Giombi2,†, Riccardo Ricci3,4,‡, and Diego Trancanelli2,§

  • 1Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Physik, Newtonstraße 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
  • 2C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3840, USA
  • 3Theoretical Physics Group, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
  • 4The Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College, London, SW7 2PG, United Kingdom

  • *drukker@physik.hu-berlin.de
  • sgiombi@max2.physics.sunysb.edu
  • r.ricci@imperial.ac.uk
  • §dtrancan@max2.physics.sunysb.edu

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Vol. 76, Iss. 10 — 15 November 2007

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