Cusped SYM Wilson loop at two loops and beyond

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2006.05.002zbMATH Open1186.81096arXivhep-th/0602100OpenAlexW2025307955MaRDI QIDQ879868FDOQ879868

Authors: Poul Olesen, Y. Makeenko, G. W. Semenoff 

Publication date: 10 May 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We calculate the anomalous dimension of the cusped Wilson loop in $calN=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to order $lambd{a}^2$ ($lambda=g_{YM}^{2}N$). We show that the cancellation between the diagrams with the three-point vertex and the self-energy insertion to the propagator which occurs for smooth Wilson loops is not complete for cusped loops, so that an anomaly term remains. This term contributes to the cusp anomalous dimension. The result agrees with the anomalous dimensions of twist-two conformal operators with large spin. We verify the loop equation for cusped loops to order $lambd{a}^2$, reproducing the cusp anomalous dimension this way. We also examine the issue of summing ladder diagrams to all orders. We find an exact solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation, summing light-cone ladder diagrams, and show that for certain values of parameters it reduces to a Bessel function. We find that the ladder diagrams cannot reproduce for large $lambda$ the $sqrtlambda$-behavior of the cusp anomalous dimension expected from the AdS/CFT correspondence.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0602100

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman diagrams (81T18) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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