The Operator Product Expansion for Wilson Loops and Surfaces in the Large N Limit
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The operator product expansion for “small” Wilson loops in N = 4, d = 4 SYM is studied. The OPE coefficients are calculated in the large N and g YMN limit by exploiting the AdS/CFT correspondence. We also consider Wilson surfaces in the (0, 2), d = 6 superconformal theory. In this case, we find that the UV divergent terms include a term proportional to the rigid string action. ∗Present address: Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 †Research supported in part by the Robert A. Welch Foundation and NSF Grant PHY 9511632. ‡Research supported in part by grants DE-FG02-96ER40559 and NSF PHY 9407194. Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
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