Special contact Wilson loops
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چکیده
Wilson loops in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory correspond at strong coupling to extremal surfaces in AdS5. We study a class of extremal surfaces known as special Legendrian submanifolds. The ”hemisphere” corresponding to the circular Wilson loop is an example of a special Legendrian submanifold, and we give another example. We formulate the necessary conditions for the contour on the boundary of AdS5 to be the boundary of the special Legendrian submanifold and conjecture that these conditions are in fact sufficient. We call the solutions of these conditions ”special contact Wilson loops”. The first order equations for the special Legendrian submanifold impose a constraint on the functional derivatives of the Wilson loop at the special contact contour which should be satisfied in the Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling. e-mail: [email protected]
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