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We study string quantum corrections to the ratio of latitude and circular Wilson loops in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling. Conformal gauge for the corresponding minimal surface in AdS(5)xS(5) is singular and we show that an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Alessandra Cagnazzo , Daniel Medina-Rincon , Konstantin Zarembo

We compute the expectation values of BPS Wilson loops in the mass-deformed ABJM theory using the Fermi gas technique. We obtain explicit results in terms of Airy functions, effectively resumming the full 1/N expansion up to exponentially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-07 Elisabetta Armanini , Luca Griguolo , Luigi Guerrini

The light-like cusp anomalous dimension is a universal function in the analysis of infrared divergences. In maximally ($\mathcal{N}=4$) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (SYM) in the planar limit, it is known, in principle, to all loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-08 Rutger Boels , Bernd A. Kniehl , Gang Yang

We discuss supergraphs and their relation to "chiral functions" in N=4 Super Yang-Mills. Based on the magnon dispersion relation and an explicit three-loop result of Sieg's we make an all loop conjecture for the rational contributions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Joseph A. Minahan

We present a new technique for computing supersymmetric Wilson loops in the ABJM theory via supersymmetric localization, valid for arbitrary values of the rank of the gauge group $N$ and the Chern-Simons level $k$. The approach relies on an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-20 Bercel Boldis , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Alessandro Testa

We consider the world surface in AdS_5 that ends on two intersecting null lines at the boundary. The corresponding string partition function describes the expectation value of the Wilson line with a null cusp in dual large N maximally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 R. Roiban , A. A. Tseytlin

We compute correlation functions of local operator insertions on the 1/2 BPS Wilson lines of N=4 Chern-Simons-matter theories in 3 dimensions. We study the algebra preserved by the defect CFT supported on the line, identify the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-06 Riccardo Giordana Pozzi , Diego Trancanelli

We compute analytically the two-loop contribution to the correlation function of the Lagrangian with a four-sided light-like (or null) Wilson loop in N=4 super Yang-Mills. As a non-trivial test of our result, we reproduce the three-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-17 Luis F. Alday , Johannes M. Henn , Jakub Sikorowski

We propose that, in N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory, correlation functions of certain 1/8 BPS Wilson loops and local operators inserted on a S^2 in space-time may be computed in terms of analogous observables in the "zero-instanton" sector of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Simone Giombi , Vasily Pestun

We revisit the computation of the 1-loop string correction to the "latitude" minimal surface in $AdS_5 \times S^5$ representing 1/4 BPS Wilson loop in planar $\cal N$=4 SYM theory previously addressed in arXiv:1512.00841 and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 V. Forini , A. A. Tseytlin , E. Vescovi

We study the Bremsstrahlung function in two four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal gauge theories: the E-theory, with hypermultiplets in the symmetric and antisymmetric representations, and the D-theory, with antisymmetric and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Lorenzo De Lillo , Paolo Vallarino

We study singular 1/2 BPS solutions in M-theory using 11-dimensional superstar solutions. The superstar solutions and their corresponding plane wave limits could give an insight how one may deform the boundary conditions to get singular,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Mohsen Alishahiha , Hossein Yavartanoo

In CFTs, the partition function of a line defect with a cusp depends logarithmically on the size of the line with an angle-dependent coefficient: the cusp anomalous dimension. In the first part of this work, we study the general properties…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-15 Gabriel Cuomo , Yin-Chen He , Zohar Komargodski

We present an ansatz for the planar five-loop four-point amplitude in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in terms of loop integrals. This ansatz exploits the recently observed correspondence between integrals with simple conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , H. Johansson , D. A. Kosower

We study the correlators of a recently discovered family of BPS Wilson loops in ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric U(N) Yang-Mills theory. When the contours lie on a two-sphere in the space-time, we propose a closed expression that is valid for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-24 A. Bassetto , L. Griguolo , F. Pucci , D. Seminara , S. Thambyahpillai , D. Young

Supersymmetric localization reduces the computation of protected observables in ABJM theory to finite-dimensional matrix integrals. Building on the techniques introduced in arXiv:2512.02119, we develop a bootstrap framework for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Bercel Boldis , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Alessandro Testa

A BPS exact wall solution is found in N=1 supergravity in four dimensions. The model uses chiral scalar field with a periodic superpotential admitting winding numbers. Maintaining the periodicity in supergravity requires a gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Minoru Eto , Nobuhito Maru , Norisuke Sakai , Tsuyoshi Sakata

We study the four-dimensional superconformal N=2 gauge theories engineered by the Type IIB superstring on Arnold's 14 exceptional unimodal singularities (a.k.a. Arnold's strange duality list), thus extending the methods of 1006.3435 to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Sergio Cecotti , Michele Del Zotto

We use the techniques of supersymmetric localization to compute the BPS black hole entropy in N=2 supergravity. We focus on the n_v+1 vector multiplets on the black hole near horizon background which is AdS_2 x S^2 space. We find the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Rajesh Kumar Gupta , Yuto Ito , Imtak Jeon

The standard prescription for computing Wilson loops in the AdS/CFT correspondence in the large coupling regime and tree-level involves minimizing the string action. In many cases the action has more than one saddle point as in the simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Nadav Drukker