Wednesday, July 4, 2012

1207.0611 (Albrecht Klemm et al.)

ABJM Wilson loops in the Fermi gas approach    [PDF]

Albrecht Klemm, Marcos Marino, Marc Schiereck, Masoud Soroush
The matrix model of ABJM theory can be formulated in terms of a Fermi gas in an external potential. We show that, in this formalism, vevs of Wilson loops correspond to averages of operators in the statistical-mechanical problem. This makes it possible to calculate these vevs at all orders in 1/N, up to exponentially small corrections, and for arbitrary Chern-Simons coupling, by using the WKB expansion. We present explicit results for the vevs of 1/6 and the 1/2 BPS Wilson loops, at any winding number, in terms of Airy functions. Our expressions are shown to reproduce the low genus results obtained previously in the 't Hooft expansion.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.0611

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