TY - JOUR
T1 - Supersymmetric Wilson loops in N = 4 SYM and pure spinors
AU - Dymarsky, Anatoly
AU - Pestun, Vasily
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We study supersymmetric Wilson loop operators in four-dimensional N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory. We show that the contour of a supersymmetric Wilson loop is either an orbit of some conformal transformation of the space-time (case I), or an arbitrary contour in the subspace where local superalgebra generator is a pure spinor (case II). In the more interesting case II we find and classify all pairs (Q,W) of the supercharges and the corresponding operators modulo the action of the global symmetry group.
AB - We study supersymmetric Wilson loop operators in four-dimensional N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory. We show that the contour of a supersymmetric Wilson loop is either an orbit of some conformal transformation of the space-time (case I), or an arbitrary contour in the subspace where local superalgebra generator is a pure spinor (case II). In the more interesting case II we find and classify all pairs (Q,W) of the supercharges and the corresponding operators modulo the action of the global symmetry group.
KW - AdS-CFT correspondence
KW - Supersymmetric gauge theory
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U2 - 10.1007/JHEP04(2010)115
DO - 10.1007/JHEP04(2010)115
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77954909399
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2010
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 4
M1 - 115
ER -