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Quiver gauge theories with a large number of nodes host a wealth of Wilson loop operators. Expectation values are obtained, using supersymmetric localization, for Wilson loops in the antisymmetric representations associated with each…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-26 Christoph F. Uhlemann

We study a recently discovered family of 1/8-BPS supersymmetric Wilson loops in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and their string theory duals. The operators are defined for arbitrary contours on a two-sphere in space-time, and they were…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Simone Giombi , Vasily Pestun , Riccardo Ricci

We consider the expectation value $\langle \cal W \rangle$ of the circular BPS Wilson loop in ${\cal N}=2$ superconformal $SU(N)$ gauge theory containing a vector multiplet coupled to two hypermultiplets in rank-2 symmetric and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-28 Matteo Beccaria , Gerald V. Dunne , Arkady A. Tseytlin

The S-matrix for planar N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory can be computed as the correlation function for a holomorphic polygonal Wilson loop in twistor space. In an axial gauge, this leads to the construction of the all-loop integrand via MHV…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Arthur E. Lipstein , Lionel Mason

We calculate form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at tree level and one loop using novel applications of recursion relations and unitarity. In particular, we determine the expression of the one-loop form factors…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-03 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini , Gang Yang

In conformal $\mathcal{N}=2$ Super Yang-Mills theory, the energy emitted by an accelerated heavy particle is computed by the one-point function of the stress tensor operator in the presence of a Wilson line. In this paper, we consider the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Lorenzo Bianchi , Marco Billò , Francesco Galvagno , Alberto Lerda

We obtain concise analytic formulae for Wilson loops computed on special n-point polygonal contours through two-loops in weakly coupled N=4 supersymmetric gauge theory. The contours we consider can be embedded into a (1+1)-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 Paul Heslop , Valentin V. Khoze

We analyze correlation functions of Wilson loop observables and local vertex operators within the strong-coupling regime of the AdS/CFT correspondence. When the local operator corresponds to a light string state with finite conserved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Rafael Hernandez

Commutative Yang-Mills theories in 1+1 dimensions exhibit an interesting interplay between geometrical properties and U(N) gauge structures: in the exact expression of a Wilson loop with $n$ windings a non trivial scaling intertwines $n$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Bassetto , G. Nardelli , A. Torrielli

We investigate elliptical Wilson loops in ${\cal N}=4$ Super Yang--Mills theory at weak and strong coupling for small values of the eccentricity. We obtain analytical results for the vacuum expectation value of the Wilson loop in the form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Thales Azevedo , Alfonso Ballon-Bayona , Leonardo Pazito

We complete the program of 2012.15792 about perturbative approaches for $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal quiver theories in four dimensions. We consider several classes of observables in presence of Wilson loops, and we evaluate them with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Francesco Galvagno , Michelangelo Preti

We consider supersymmetric Wilson loops of the variety constructed by Drukker, Giombi, Ricci, and Trancanelli, whose spatial contours lie on a two-sphere. Working to second order in the 't Hooft coupling in planar N=4 Supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Donovan Young

In the planar N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at weak coupling, we perform the first analytic computation of a two-loop eight-edged Wilson loop embedded into the boundary of AdS3. Its remainder function is given as a function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Vittorio Del Duca , Claude Duhr , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We discuss Wilson loop averages in 4-dimensional non-commutative superYang-Mills theory using the dual supergravity description. We postulate that the Wilson loops are located at the mimimum length scale $R$ in the fifth radial coordinate.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Dhar , Y. Kitazawa

We compute the correlation function between a circular half-BPS Wilson loop (or straight Wilson line) and a local operator in ABJM theory utilizing its M-theory description. The local operator can be a $1/3$-BPS single-trace chiral primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Xiao-Yi Zhang , Yunfeng Jiang , Jun-Bao Wu

For ${\cal N}=2^*$ theory with $U(N)$ gauge group we evaluate expectation values of Wilson loops in representations described by a rectangular Young tableau with $n$ rows and $k$ columns. The evaluation reduces to a two-matrix model and we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 James T. Liu , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Shan Zhou

We propose a method to calculate the expectation values of an operator similar to the Wilson loop in the large N limit of field theories. We consider N=4 3+1 dimensional super-Yang-Mills. The prescription involves calculating the area of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Juan M. Maldacena

We calculate supersymmetric Wilson loops on the ellipsoid for a large class of $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFT using the localization formula of Hama and Hosomichi. From them we extract the radiation emitted by an accelerating heavy probe quark as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-22 Vladimir Mitev , Elli Pomoni

We develop Coulomb gas pictures of strong and weak coupling regimes of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in five and four dimensions. By relating them to the matrix models that arise in Chern-Simons theory, we compute their free energies in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-05 Georgios Giasemidis , Richard J. Szabo , Miguel Tierz

We study the four-point correlator $\langle \mathcal{O}_2 \mathcal{O}_2 \mathcal{D} \mathcal{D} \rangle$ in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory (SYM) with $SU(N)$ gauge group, where $\mathcal{O}_2$ represents the superconformal primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-10 Augustus Brown , Francesco Galvagno , Congkao Wen