2002/02/14 by S. Bhattacharya, Somdatta Bhattacharya, Bhattacharya, Somdatta
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0202088
7 pages, typos fixed, references added, minor changes
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In hep-th/9803002, Maldacena argued that in the light of the AdS/CFT correspondence as formulated by Witten and Gubser, Klebanov and Polyakov as a relation between partition functions, the expectation value of the Wilson loop in \cal N=4 SU(N) SYM is given by the worldsheet partition function with the action formulated on an AdS5× S5 background and the world sheet ending on the loop on the boundary of AdS5. What we propose to do in this paper is to provide some alternative arguments as to why it should be so.