Wilson loops in large N field theories

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  • 4 March 1998
Abstract
We propose a method to calculate the expectation values of an operator similar to the Wilson loop in the large N limit of field theories. We consider N =4 3+1 dimensional super-Yang-Mills. The prescription involves calculating the area of a fundamental string worldsheet in certain supergravity backgrounds. We also consider the case of coincident M-theory fivebranes where one is lead to calculating the area of M-theory two-branes. We briefly discuss the computation for 2+1 dimensional super-Yang-Mills with sixteen supercharges which is non-conformal. In all these cases we calculate the energy of quark-antiquark pair.

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