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Classifying BPS bosonic Wilson loops in 3d ${\cal N}=4$ Chern-Simons-matter theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-12-01 v2

Abstract

We study the possible BPS Wilson loops in three-dimensional N=4{\cal N}=4 Chern-Simons-matter theory which involve only the gauge field and bilinears of the scalars. Previously known examples are the analogues of the Gaiotto-Yin loops preserving four supercharges and "latitude" loops preserving two. We carry out a careful classification and find, in addition, loops preserving three supercharges, further inequivalent classes of loops preserving two supercharges and loops preserving a single supercharge. For each of the classes of loops, we present a representative example and analyse their full orbit under the broken symmetries.

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@article{arxiv.2210.03758,
  title  = {Classifying BPS bosonic Wilson loops in 3d ${\cal N}=4$ Chern-Simons-matter theories},
  author = {Nadav Drukker and Ziwen Kong and Malte Probst and Marcia Tenser and Diego Trancanelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.03758},
  year   = {2022}
}

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18 pages; v2: affiliation fixed