Intersection of world-lines on curved surfaces and path-ordering of the Wilson loop
arXiv:1712.04760 · doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2018)081
Abstract
We study contact interactions for long world-lines on a curved surface, focusing on the average number of times two world-lines intersect as a function of their end-points. The result can be used to extend the concept of path-ordering, as employed in the Wilson loop, from a closed curve into the interior of a surface spanning the curve. Taking this surface as a string world-sheet yields a generalisation of the string contact interaction previously used to represent the Abelian Wilson loop as a tensionless string. We also describe a supersymmetric generalisation.
arXiv comment28 pages, 2 figures
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