A Short Note On The Wilson-Loop Average And The AdS/CFT Correspondece

Abstract

In hep-th/9803002, Maldacena argued that in the light of the AdS/CFT correspondence as formulated by Witten and Gubser, Klebanov and Polyakov as a relation between partition functions, the expectation value of the Wilson loop in $\mathcal{N}$=4 SU(N) SYM is given by the worldsheet partition function with the action formulated on an $Ad{S}_5\times S^5$ background and the world sheet ending on the loop on the boundary of $Ad{S}_5$. What we propose to do in this paper is to provide some alternative arguments as to why it should be so.

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