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We study planar ABJM in a limit where one coupling is negligible compared to the other. We provide a recipe for exactly solving the expectation value of bosonic BPS Wilson loops on arbitrary smooth contours, or the leading divergence for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-31 Marco S. Bianchi , Matias Leoni

We study the stress tensor multiplet four-point function in the 3d maximally supersymmetric ABJ(M) theory with Chern-Simons level $k=2$, which in the large $N$ limit is holographically dual to weakly coupled M-theory on $AdS_4\times…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-16 Luis F. Alday , Shai M. Chester , Himanshu Raj

We study new $1/24$ BPS circular Wilson loops in ABJ(M) theory, which are defined in terms of several parameters that continuously interpolate between previously known $1/6$ BPS loops (both bosonic and fermionic) and $1/2$ BPS fermionic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 Luigi Castiglioni , Silvia Penati , Marcia Tenser , Diego Trancanelli

We study the integrability properties of Wilson loops in the ${\cal N}=6$ three-dimensional Chern-Simons-matter (ABJM) theory. We begin with the construction of an open spin chain that describes the anomalous dimensions of operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-17 Diego H. Correa , Victor I. Giraldo-Rivera , Martín Lagares

We study light-like polygonal Wilson loops in three-dimensional Chern-Simons and ABJM theory to two-loop order. For both theories we demonstrate that the one-loop contribution to these correlators cancels. For pure Chern-Simons, we find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Johannes M. Henn , Jan Plefka , Konstantin Wiegandt

The matrix model of ABJM theory can be formulated in terms of a Fermi gas in an external potential. We show that, in this formalism, vevs of Wilson loops correspond to averages of operators in the statistical-mechanical problem. This makes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Albrecht Klemm , Marcos Marino , Marc Schiereck , Masoud Soroush

We study the phase transitions of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ $U(N)$ Chern-Simons theory on $\mathbb{S}^3$ with a varied number of massive fundamental hypermultiplets and with a Fayet-Iliopoulos parameter. We characterize the various…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-10 Leonardo Santilli , Miguel Tierz

The computation of the emitted radiation by an accelerated external particle can be addressed in a gauge theory with the insertion of a Wilson loop. With the addition of conformal symmetry this problem is consistently formalized in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Francesco Galvagno

We study Wilson loop operators in three-dimensional, N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons theory dual to IIA superstring theory on AdS4 x CP3. Novelty of Wilson loop operators in this theory is that, for a given contour, there are two linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-27 Soo-Jong Rey , Takao Suyama , Satoshi Yamaguchi

We compute a set of correlation functions of operator insertions on the 1/8 BPS Wilson loop in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM by employing supersymmetric localization, OPE and the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization. These correlators exhibit a simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-09 Simone Giombi , Shota Komatsu

In ABJ(M) theory a generalized cusp can be constructed out of the 1/6 BPS Wilson line by introducing an angle $\varphi$ in the spacial contour and/or an angle $\theta$ in the internal R-symmetry space. The small angles limits of its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Marco S. Bianchi , Andrea Mauri

We present new circular Wilson loops in three-dimensional N=4 quiver Chern-Simons-matter theory on S^3. At any given node of the quiver, a two-parameter family of operators can be obtained by opportunely deforming the 1/4 BPS Gaiotto-Yin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-22 Nadav Drukker , Marcia Tenser , Diego Trancanelli

We review some exact results for the matrix models appearing in the localization of Chern-Simons-matter theories, focusing on the structure of non-perturbative effects and onthe M-theory expansion of ABJM theory. We also summarize some of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Marcos Marino

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

For three-dimensional ${\cal N}=4$ super Chern-Simons-matter theories associated to necklace quivers $U(N_0) \times U(N_1) \times \cdots U(N_{2r-1}) $, we study at quantum level the two kinds of 1/2 BPS Wilson loop operators recently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-30 Luca Griguolo , Matias Leoni , Andrea Mauri , Silvia Penati , Domenico Seminara

We study three-dimensional {\cal N}=2 U(N) Chern-Simons theory on S^3 coupled to 2N_f chiral multiplets deformed by mass terms. The partition function localizes to a matrix integral, which can be exactly computed in the large N limit. In a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Alejandro Barranco , Jorge G. Russo

We compute the exact vacuum expectation value of 1/2 BPS circular Wilson loops of ${\cal N}$=4 U(N) super Yang-Mills in arbitrary irreducible representations. By localization arguments, the computation reduces to evaluating certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Bartomeu Fiol , Genis Torrents

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

We consider the 1/2 BPS circular Wilson loop in a generic N=2 SU(N) SYM theory with conformal matter content. We study its vacuum expectation value, both at finite $N$ and in the large-N limit, using the interacting matrix model provided by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-17 M. Billo , F. Galvagno , A. Lerda

We study three-dimensional supersymmetric quiver gauge theories with a non-simply laced global symmetry primarily focusing on framed affine $B_{N}$ quiver theories. Using a supersymmetric partition function on a three sphere, and its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Anindya Dey , Amihay Hanany , Peter Koroteev , Noppadol Mekareeya