8.821 | Fall 2008 | Graduate

String Theory

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Lecture 18: Wilson Loops

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Lecture notes on minimum surfaces, Wilson loops, quark-antiquark potential, Wilson loops with a cusp, correlators of Wilson loops, monopole-monopole potential, and k−surface observables.

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