Remarks on Holographic Wilson Loops and the Schwinger Effect
Abstract
We extend Douglas' solution of the problem of finding minimal surfaces to anti-de Sitter space. The case of a circle as a boundary contour is elaborated. We discuss applications to N=4 super Yang-Mills: a circular Wilson loop and the Schwinger process, where we calculate the 1/λ correction to the critical value of constant electric field.
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