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  title info:
    title: Symmetries of Maldacena-Wilson Loops from Integrable String Theory
  name:
    name part: Münkler, Hagen.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 210 p. 28 illus., 8 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The book discusses hidden symmetries in the Anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) duality. This duality is a modern concept that asserts an exact duality between conformally invariant quantum field theories and string theories in higher dimensional Anti-de Sitter spaces, and in this way provides a completely new tool for the study of strongly coupled quantum field theories. In this setting, the book focuses on the Wilson loop, an important observable in four-dimensional maximally supersymmetric gauge theory. The dual string description using minimal surfaces enables a systematic study of the hidden symmetries of the loop. The book presents major findings, including the discovery of a master symmetry for strings in general symmetric spaces, its relation to the Yangian symmetry algebra and its action on the minimal surfaces appearing in the dual string description of the Wilson loop. Moreover, it clarifies why certain symmetries are not present on the gauge theory side for purely bosonic Wilson loops and, lastly, how the supersymmetrization of the minimal surface problem for type IIB superstrings can be undertaken. As such, it substantially increases our understanding and use of infinite dimensional symmetries occurring in the AdS/CFT correspondence.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Symmetries, Fields and Loops -- Symmetric Space Models -- Minimal Surfaces in AdS -- Away from Strong Coupling -- Semisymmetric Space Models -- Minimal Surfaces in Superspace -- Conclusion and Outlook.
  note: by Hagen Münkler.
  subject:
    topic: Quantum field theory
  subject:
    topic: String theory
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Field Theories, String Theory
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences
  classification: QC174.45-174.52
  classification: 530.14
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  identifier: 9783030036058
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03605-8
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    record creation date: 181124
    record change date: 20191023132223.0
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