Supersymmetric Wilson loops in N=4 SYM and pure spinors Export

@article{citeulike:6097401, abstract = {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.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Dymarsky, Anatoly and Pestun, Vasily}, citeulike-article-id = {6097401}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1841}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0911.1841}, day = {10}, eprint = {0911.1841}, keywords = {ads-cft, alday-maldacena, msym, pure-spinor, wilson-loops}, month = {Nov}, posted-at = {2009-11-11 11:27:46}, priority = {2}, title = {Supersymmetric Wilson loops in N=4 SYM and pure spinors}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1841}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6097401 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6097401 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. TI - Supersymmetric Wilson loops in N=4 SYM and pure spinors KW - ads-cft KW - alday-maldacena KW - msym KW - pure-spinor KW - wilson-loops AU - Dymarsky, Anatoly AU - Pestun, Vasily PY - 2009/Nov/10/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1841 ER -