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We set up a general scheme to resum ladder diagrams for the quark-anti-quark potential in \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, and do explicit calculations at the next-to-leading order. The results perfectly agree with string theory in AdS 5 × S 5 when continued to strong coupling, in spite of a potential order-of-limits problem.
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Bykov, D., Zarembo, K. Ladders for Wilson loops beyond leading order. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 57 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2012)057
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