@article{BrandingDrukker2009, author = {Branding, Volker and Drukker, Nadav}, title = {BPS Wilson loops in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory : examples on hyperbolic submanifolds of space-time}, issn = {1550-7998}, doi = {10.1103/Physrevd.79.106006}, year = {2009}, abstract = {In this paper we present a family of supersymmetric Wilson loops of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in Minkowski space. Our examples focus on curves restricted to hyperbolic submanifolds, H-3 and H-2, of space-time. Generically they preserve two supercharges, but in special cases more, including a case which has not been discussed before, of the hyperbolic line, conformal to the straight line and circle, which is 1/2 BPS. We discuss some general properties of these Wilson loops and their string duals and study special examples in more detail. Generically the string duals propagate on a complexification of AdS(5)xS(5) and in some specific examples the compact sphere is effectively replaced by a de Sitter space.}, language = {en} }