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We study the correlator of concentric circular Wilson loops for arbitrary radii, spatial and internal space separations. For real values of the parameters specifying the dual string configuration, a typical Gross-Ooguri phase transition is observed. In addition, we explore some analytic continuation of a parameter γ that characterizes the internal space separation. This enables a ladder limit in which ladder resummation and string theory computations precisely agree in the strong coupling limit. Finally, we find a critical value of γ for which the correlator is supersymmetric and ladder diagrams can be exactly resummed for any value of the coupling constant.
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Correa, D.H., Pisani, P. & Fukelman, A.R. Ladder limit for correlators of Wilson loops. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 168 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2018)168
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