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't Hooft loops and integrability

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-08-29 v3

Abstract

We consider the defect CFT defined by a 't Hooft line embedded in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. By explicitly quantizing around the given background we exactly reproduce a prediction from S-duality for the correlators between the 't Hooft line and chiral primaries in the bulk and pave the way for higher loop analyses for non-protected operators. Furthermore, we demonstrate at the leading perturbative order that correlators between the 't Hooft line and non-protected bulk operators can be efficiently computed using integrability. As a byproduct we find new integrable overlaps in sl(2) spin chains in different representations.

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@article{arxiv.2305.03649,
  title  = {'t Hooft loops and integrability},
  author = {Charlotte Kristjansen and Konstantin Zarembo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.03649},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

47 pages, 4 figures; v2: references added, discussion of sl(2) overlaps extended; v3: misprints corrected

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