2006/09/30 by Gordon W. Semenoff, Donovan Young · 35 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2006.10.047
published in Physics Letters B 643(3-4), 195-204 (Elsevier BV) · 17 pages, 4 figures, a few minor typos corrected
openalex publication_date 2006/11/04 · arxiv created 2006/11/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Correlation functions of 1/4BPS Wilson loops with the infinite family of 1/2BPS chiral primary operators are computed in N=4 super-Yang–Mills theory by summing planar ladder diagrams. Leading loop corrections to the sum are shown to vanish. The correlation functions are also computed in the strong-coupling limit by examining the supergravity dual of the loop–loop correlator. The strong coupling result is found to agree with the extrapolation of the planar ladders. The result is related to known correlators of 1/2BPS Wilson loops and 1/2BPS chiral primaries by a simple re-scaling of the coupling constant, similar to an observation of Drukker [N. Drukker, hep-th/0605151] for the case of the 1/4BPS loop vacuum expectation value.