Wilson Loops in the Higgs Phase of Large N Field Theories on the Conifold
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چکیده
We study the quark-antiquark interaction in the large N limit of the superconformal field theory on D-3branes at a Calabi-Yau conical singularity. We compute the Wilson loop in the AdS5 × T 11 supergravity background for the SU(2N) × SU(2N) theory. We also calculate the Wilson loop for the Higgs phase where the gauge group is broken to SU(N) × SU(N) × SUD(N). This corresponds to a two center configuration with some of the branes at the singularity and the rest of them at a smooth point. The calculation exhibits the expected Coulomb dependence for the interaction. The angular distribution of the BPS states is different than the one for a spherical horizon. † e-mail address: [email protected], [email protected]
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