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M2-doughnuts

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-02-11 v2

Abstract

We present a family of new M2-brane solutions in AdS7×S4AdS_7\times S^4 that calculate toroidal BPS surface operators in the N=(2,0)\mathcal{N}=(2,0) theory. These observables are conformally invariant and not subject to anomalies so we are able to evaluate their finite expectation values at leading order at large NN. In the limit of a thin torus we find a cylinder, which is a natural surface generalization of both the circular and parallel lines Wilson loop. We study and comment on this limit in some detail.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2111.09385,
  title  = {M2-doughnuts},
  author = {Nadav Drukker and Maxime Trepanier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.09385},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

7 pages; v2: reference added, published version