Spin chain integrability in non-supersymmetric Wilson loops

• Main Authors: Diego Correa, Matias Leoni, Solange Luque
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2018-12-01
• Series: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Subjects: AdS-CFT Correspondence; Conformal Field Theory; Integrable Field Theories; Wilson, ’t Hooft and Polyakov loops
• Online Access: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP12(2018)050

Abstract We study the 1-loop dilatation operator for insertions of composite operators in a generalized Wilson loop in N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 super Yang-Mills, which interpolates between the supersymmetric Wilson-Maldacena loop and the ordinary Wilson loop with no scalar coupling. For SO(6) scalar insertions, we show that the 1-loop dilatation operator is integrable for the endpoints of the interpolation, i.e. either for the Wilson-Maldacena or the ordinary Wilson loop. Moreover, we also show that integrability persists for SU(2|3) insertions in the ordinary Wilson loop, even when the term making the spin chain length dynamical is included.