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Wilson loops in the Higgs phase of large-N field theories on the conifold

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2000-06-30
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We study the quark-antiquark interaction in the large N limit of the superconformal field theory on D-3branes at a Calabi-Yau conical singularity. We compute the Wilson loop in the AdS_(5) × T^(11) supergravity background for the SU(2 N ) × SU(2 N) theory. We also calculate the Wilson loop for the Higgs phase where the gauge group is broken to SU ( N ) × SU ( N ) × SU_(D) ( N). This corresponds to a two center configuration with some of the branes at the singularity and the rest of them at a smooth point. The calculation exhibits the expected Coulomb dependence for the interaction. The angular distribution of the BPS states is different than the one for a spherical horizon.
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© IOP Publishing 2000. It is a pleasure to thank E. Gava, K. Narain and K. Ray for useful discussions, and J. Maldacena for comments. This research is partly supported by the EC contract no. ERBFMRX-CT96-0090.
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