Speaker
Alexia Nix
Description
In this talk, I will focus on the study of 1/2-BPS Wilson loop operators in maximally supersymmetric Yang Mills theories on (p+1)- dimensional spheres. The gravity duals to these theories are given by the backreacted geometry of spherical Dp-branes and our aim is to compute the holographic Wilson loops in these backgrounds up to next-to-leading order in the large ’t Hooft coupling expansion. This is achieved by evaluating the partition function of a probe fundamental string in these backgrounds up to one loop order, from the string theory point of view, and by comparing this to the vacuum expectation value of the supersymmetric Wilson loop from the field theory perspective.
