Pulling the straps of polygons

Davide Gaiotto*, Juan Maldacena, Amit Sever, Pedro Vieira

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Abstract

Using the Operator Product Expansion for Wilson loops we derive a simple formula giving the discontinuities of the two loop result in terms of the one loop answer. We also argue that the knowledge of these discontinuities should be enough to fix the full two loop answer, for a general number of sides. We work this out explicitly for the case of the hexagon and rederive the known result.

Original languageEnglish
Article number011
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2011
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • AdS-CFT correspondence
  • Integrable field theories
  • Supersymmetric gauge theory

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