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Exact SUSY Wilson loops on $S^3$ from $q$-Virasoro constraints

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-12-20 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Using the ideas from the BPS/CFT correspondence, we give an explicit recursive formula for computing supersymmetric Wilson loop averages in 3d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons U(N)U(N) theory on the squashed sphere Sb3S^3_b with one adjoint chiral and two antichiral fundamental multiplets, for specific values of Chern-Simons level κ2\kappa_2 and Fayet-Illiopoulos parameter κ1\kappa_1. For these values of κ1\kappa_1 and κ2\kappa_2 the north and south pole turn out to be completely independent, and therefore Wilson loop averages factorize into answers for the two constituent D2×S1D^2 \times S^1 theories. In particular, our formula provides results for the theory on the round sphere when the squashing is removed.

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@article{arxiv.1909.10352,
  title  = {Exact SUSY Wilson loops on $S^3$ from $q$-Virasoro constraints},
  author = {Luca Cassia and Rebecca Lodin and Aleksandr Popolitov and Maxim Zabzine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.10352},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

30 pages, 1 figure; v2: typos fixed, JHEP version