Curry, Chris and Mansfield, Paul (2018) 'Intersection of world-lines on curved surfaces and path-ordering of the Wilson loop.', Journal of high energy physics., 2018 (6). p. 81.
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution. Download PDF (419Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2018)081 |
| Publisher statement: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
| Date accepted: | 07 June 2018 |
| Date deposited: | 26 June 2018 |
| Date of first online publication: | 18 June 2018 |
| Date first made open access: | No date available |
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