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The asymptotic behavior of Wilson loops in the large-size limit (L → ∞) in confining gauge theories with area law is controlled by effective string theory (EST). The L−2 term of the large-size expansion for the logarithm of Wilson loop appears within EST as a 2-loop correction. Ultraviolet divergences of this 2-loop correction for polygonal contours can be renormalized using an analytical regularization constructed in terms of Schwarz-Christoffel mapping. In the case of triangular Wilson loops this method leads to a simple final expression for the L−2 term.
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Pobylitsa, P. Large-size expansion for triangular Wilson loops in confining gauge theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 204 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2020)204
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