Comments on gluon scattering amplitudes via AdS/CFT
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In this article we consider n gluon color ordered, planar amplitudes in N = 4 super Yang Mills at strong ’t Hooft coupling. These amplitudes are approximated by classical surfaces in AdS5 space. We compute the value of the amplitude for a particular kinematic configuration for a large number of gluons and find that the result disagrees with a recent guess for the exact value of the amplitude. Our results are still compatible with a possible relation between amplitudes and Wilson loops. In addition, we also give a prescription for computing processes involving local operators and asymptotic states with a fixed number of gluons. As a byproduct, we also obtain a string theory prescription for computing the dual of the ordinary Wilson loop, TrPe ∮
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