Remarks on holographic Wilson loops and the Schwinger effect

Jan Ambjørn; Y. Makeenko

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.85.061901

Remarks on holographic Wilson loops and the Schwinger effect

Jan Ambjørn, Y. Makeenko

Theoretical high energy, astroparticle and gravitational physics

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Abstract

We extend Douglas' solution of the problem of finding minimal surfaces to anti-de Sitter space. The case of a circle as a boundary contour is elaborated. We discuss applications to N=4 super Yang-Mills: a circular Wilson loop and the Schwinger process, where we calculate the 1/√λ correction to the critical value of constant electric field.

Original language	English
Journal	Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
Volume	85
Issue number	6
Pages (from-to)	061901
ISSN	1550-7998
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.061901
Publication status	Published - 5 Mar 2012

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