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Universal holographic Wilson loops in 3d SCFTs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-11-07 v1

Abstract

We study the vacuum expectation value of half-BPS Wilson loop operators in two families of superconformal N=2\mathcal{N}=2 Chern-Simons-matter theories. The first family is dual to AdS4_{4} solutions in M-theory, while the second one has a dual description in massive type IIA string theory. Utilizing the properties of the underlying geometry, we provide a universal description for the semiclassical quantization of a probe M2-brane and fundamental string in the respective holographic dual geometries. As a result, we find the one-loop partition function of both the M2-brane and the string which leads to a prediction for the large NN behaviour of the Wilson loops in the dual SCFTs. For theories with M-theory duals, we conjecture the full perturbative completion as a ratio of Airy functions.

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@article{arxiv.2511.04596,
  title  = {Universal holographic Wilson loops in 3d SCFTs},
  author = {Fridrik Freyr Gautason and Alexia Nix},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.04596},
  year   = {2025}
}

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42 pages, 8 figures