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Rigid surface operators and S-duality: some proposals

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-13 v2

Abstract

We study surface operators in the N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories with gauge groups SO(n) and Sp(2n). As recently shown by Gukov and Witten these theories have a class of rigid surface operators which are expected to be related by S-duality. The rigid surface operators are of two types, unipotent and semisimple. We make explicit proposals for how the S-duality map should act on unipotent surface operators. We also discuss semisimple surface operators and make some proposals for certain subclasses of such operators.

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@article{arxiv.0901.1833,
  title  = {Rigid surface operators and S-duality: some proposals},
  author = {Niclas Wyllard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.1833},
  year   = {2015}
}

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27 pages. v2: minor changes, added reference

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