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arxiv: hep-th/9803137 · v2 · submitted 1998-03-17 · ✦ hep-th

Wilson Loops in the Large N Limit at Finite Temperature

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Using a proposal of Maldacena we compute in the framework of the supergravity description of N coincident D3 branes the energy of a quark anti-quark pair in the large N limit of U(N) N=4 SYM in four dimensions at finite temperature.

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