Wilson surface correlator in AdS/CFT

2026/08/05 by Andreas Gustavsson
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th

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arxiv created 2026/08/05 · arxiv updated 2026/08/06

Abstract

We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to show that for two spherical Wilson surfaces, both in the fundamental representation of SU(N) gauge group, in the six-dimensional (2,0) theory, in the large N limit there is a first order Gross-Ooguri phase transition at a certain critical separation distance that we obtain numerically.

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