An exact formula for the radiation of a moving quark in N = 4 super Yang Mills

We derive an exact formula for the cusp anomalous dimension at small angles. This is done by relating the latter to the computation of certain 1/8 BPS Wilson loops which was performed by supersymmetric localization. This function of the coupling also determines the power emitted by a moving quark in...

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Authors: Correa, Diego Hernán, Henn, Johannes, Maldacena, Juan M., Sever, Amit
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2012
Country:Argentina
Institution:Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Repository:SEDICI (UNLP)
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/95574
Online Access:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/95574
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Ciencias Exactas
Física
Wilson
’t Hooft and Polyakov loops
1/N Expansion
AdS-CFT Correspondence
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Summary:We derive an exact formula for the cusp anomalous dimension at small angles. This is done by relating the latter to the computation of certain 1/8 BPS Wilson loops which was performed by supersymmetric localization. This function of the coupling also determines the power emitted by a moving quark in N = 4 super Yang Mills, as well as the coefficient of the two point function of the displacement operator on the Wilson loop. By a similar method we compute the near BPS expansion of the generalized cusp anomalous dimension.