Wilson Loop Renormalization Group Flows

Abstract

The locally BPS Wilson loop and the pure gauge Wilson loop map under AdS/CFT duality to string world-sheet boundaries with standard and alternate quantizations of the world-sheet fields. This implies an RG flow between the two operators, which we verify at weak coupling. Many additional loop operators exist at strong coupling, with a rich pattern of RG flows.

Figures (2)

• Figure 1: Scalar loop correction to the scalar vertex.
• Figure 2: A gluonic correction to the scalar vertex.