Wilson loops in the large N limit at finite temperature

A. Brandhuber*, N. Itzhaki, J. Sonnenschein, S. Yankielowicz

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Abstract

Using a proposal of Maldacena we compute in the framework of the supergravity description of N coincident D3 branes the energy of a quark anti-quark pair in the large N limit of U(N) script N sign = 4 SYM in four dimensions at finite temperature.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)36-40
Number of pages5
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume434
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 Aug 1998

Funding

FundersFunder number
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Israel Science Foundation

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