Wilson loops as matrix product states
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS AND ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR
When: September 28, 2020
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Where: Virtually
Speaker: Shota Komatsu - CERN
In this talk, I will discuss a reformulation of the Wilson loop in large N gauge theories in terms of matrix product states. The construction is motivated by the analysis of supersymmetric Wilson loops in the maximally super Yang–Mills theory in four dimensions, but can be applied to any other large N gauge theories and matrix models, although less effective. For the maximally super Yang–Mills theory, one can further perform the computation exactly as a function of ‘t Hooft coupling by combining our formulation with the relation to integrable spin chains.