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We study the connected correlator of 1/2 BPS winding Wilson loops in \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) U(N) super Yang-Mills theory, where those Wilson loops are on top of each other along the same circle. We find the exact finite N expression of the connected correlator of such Wilson loops. We show that the 1/N expansion of this exact result is reproduced from the topological recursion of Gaussian matrix model. We also study the exact finite N expression of the generating function of 1/2 BPS Wilson loops in the symmetric representation.
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Okuyama, K. Connected correlator of 1/2 BPS Wilson loops in \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) SYM. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 37 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2018)037
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