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Wilson loop renormalization group flows

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The locally BPS Wilson loop and the pure gauge Wilson loop map under AdS/CFT duality to string world-sheet boundaries with standard and alternate quantizations of the world-sheet fields. This implies an RG flow between the two operators, which we verify at weak coupling. Many additional loop operators exist at strong coupling, with a rich pattern of RG flows.

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    Joseph Polchinski

  2. Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, U.S.A.

    James Sully

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Polchinski, J., Sully, J. Wilson loop renormalization group flows. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 59 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2011)059

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