Wilson loops and anomalous dimensions in cascading theories

@article{Kruczenski2003WilsonLA,
  title={Wilson loops and anomalous dimensions in cascading theories},
  author={Martin Kruczenski},
  journal={Physical Review D},
  year={2003},
  volume={69},
  pages={106002}
}
We use lightlike Wilson loops and the AdS Conformal Field Theory correspondence to compute the anomalous dimensions of twist-2 operators in the cascading [Klebanov-Strassler (KS)] theory. The computation amounts to find a minimal surface in the uv region of the KS background, which is described by the Klebanov-Tseytlin solution. The result is similar to the one for $\mathrm{SU}(N)\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory but with N replaced by an effective, scale-dependent N. We performed also a… 
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