2007/07/18 by Nadav Drukker, Simone Giombi, Riccardo Ricci +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.77.047901
published as Phys.Rev.D77:047901,2008 · 9 pages, LaTeX
arxiv created 2007/07/18 · openalex publication_date 2008/02/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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.