Abstract
In this paper we study supersymmetric Wilson loops restricted to an S2 submanifold of four-dimensional space in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. We provide evidence from both perturbation theory and the AdS dual that those loops are equal to the analogous observables in two-dimensional Yang-Mills on S2 (excluding nonperturbative contributions). This relates a subsector of N=4 SYM to a low-dimensional soluble model and also suggests that this subsector of N=4 SYM is invariant under area preserving diffeomorphisms.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 047901 |
Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
Volume | 77 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 25 2008 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)