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Ladders for Wilson loops beyond leading order

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We set up a general scheme to resum ladder diagrams for the quark-anti-quark potential in \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, and do explicit calculations at the next-to-leading order. The results perfectly agree with string theory in AdS 5  × S 5 when continued to strong coupling, in spite of a potential order-of-limits problem.

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  1. Nordita, Roslagstullsbacken 23, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden

    D. Bykov & K. Zarembo

  2. Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russ. Acad. Sci, Gubkina str. 8, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    D. Bykov

  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, SE-751 08, Uppsala, Sweden

    K. Zarembo

  4. ITEP, Moscow, Russia

    K. Zarembo

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Bykov, D., Zarembo, K. Ladders for Wilson loops beyond leading order. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 57 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2012)057

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