2011/04/30 by Joseph Polchinski, James Sully · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep10(2011)059
10 p, 2 figures. v3: Title change, expanded treatment of RG flows
arxiv created 2011/05/19 · arxiv updated 2015/05/28
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.