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We consider a fundamental string in a bubbling geometry of arbitrary genus dual to a half-supersymmetric Wilson loop in a general large representation R of the SU(N) gauge group in \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) Supersymmetric Yang-Mills. We demonstrate, under some mild conditions, that the minimum value of the string classical action for a bubbling geometry of arbitrary genus precisely matches the correlator of a Wilson loop in the fundamental representation and one in a general large representation. We work out the case in which the large representation is given by a rectangular Young tableau, corresponding to a genus one bubbling geometry, explicitly. We also present explicit results in the field theory for a correlator of two Wilson loops: a large one in an arbitrary representation and a “small” one in the fundamental, totally symmetric or totally antisymmetric representation.
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Aguilera-Damia, J., Correa, D.H., Fucito, F. et al. Strings in bubbling geometries and dual Wilson loop correlators. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 109 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2017)109
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