Supersymmetric Wilson loops in N=4 super Chern-Simons-matter theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-12-04 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We investigate the supersymmetric Wilson loops in super Chern-Simons-matter theory obtained from non-chiral orbifold of ABJM theory. We work in both Minkowski spacetime and Euclidean space, and we construct 1/4 and 1/2 BPS Wilson loops. We also provide a complete proof that the difference between 1/4 and 1/2 Wilson loops is -exact with being some supercharge that is preserved by both the 1/4 and 1/2 Wilson loops. This plays an important role in applying the localization techniques to compute the vacuum expectation values of Wilson loops. We also study the M-theory dual of the 1/2 BPS circular Wilson loop.
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@article{arxiv.1506.06192,
title = {Supersymmetric Wilson loops in N=4 super Chern-Simons-matter theory},
author = {Hao Ouyang and Jun-Bao Wu and Jia-ju Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.06192},
year = {2015}
}
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V1, 35 pages; V2, 36 pages, references added; V3, 36 pages, typos corrected, more or less published version