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The exact 2-point function of certain physically motivated operators in SYK-like spin glass models is computed, bypassing the Schwinger-Dyson equations. The models possess an IR low energy conformal window, but our results are exact at all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Micha Berkooz , Prithvi Narayan , Joan Simon

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

It is well-known that the expectation values of null polygonal Wilson loops computed in planar \(\mathcal{N}=4\) super Yang-Mills theory are dual to MHV amplitudes in that theory, and moreover that the duality can be extended to higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 James Drummond , Ömer Gürdoğan , Matthew Rochford , Rowan Wright

Conformal field theory (CFT) plays a key role in modern theoretical physics. Through CFT we describe real physical systems at criticality and fixed points of the renormalization group flow. It is also central in the study of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-19 Giulia Peveri

We study the algebra of BPS Wilson loops in 3d gauge theories with N=2 supersymmetry and Chern-Simons terms. We argue that new relations appear on the quantum level, and that in many cases this makes the algebra finite-dimensional. We use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-12 Anton Kapustin , Brian Willett

We analyse the properties of Wilson loop observables for holographic gauge theories, when the dual bulk geometries have a single and/or multiple boundaries (Euclidean spacetime wormholes). Such observables lead to a generalisation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-01 Panos Betzios , Olga Papadoulaki

Using the ADM formalism, we demonstrate that the Hamiltonian formulation of Quantum Gravity is exactly in the form of a worldline (WL) formalism in the superspace. We then show that the Keldysh partition function reduces to the partition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Jean-Baptiste Roux

We study the Schur line defect correlation functions in $\mathcal{N}=4$ and $\mathcal{N}=2^*$ $U(N)$ super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory. We find exact closed-form formulae of the correlation functions of the Wilson line operators in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-29 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Tadashi Okazaki

We show that any complex (respectively real) representation of finite group naturally generates a open-closed (respectively Klein) topological field theory over complex numbers. We relate the 1-point correlator for the projective plane in…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2011-07-19 Sergey A. Loktev , Sergey M. Natanzon

This is the sixth article in the collection of reviews "Exact results on N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories", ed. J.Teschner. It is discussed how to use localisation techniques for the calculation of expectation values of Wilson and 't Hooft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-31 Takuya Okuda

We apply Epstein's construction of hypersurfaces in the hyperbolic disk $\mathbb D$ to prove identities between the Schwarzian action on $\operatorname{PSL}_2(\mathbb R)\backslash \mathrm{Diff}^3 (\mathbb S^1)$, the length of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Franco Vargas Pallete , Yilin Wang , Catherine Wolfram

We study correlation functions of Wilson loops and local operators in a subsector of N=4 SYM which preserves two supercharges. Localization arguments allow to map the problem to a calculation in bosonic two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Simone Giombi , Vasily Pestun

The generating functions for the Wilson loops in the symmetric and antisymmetric representations of the gauge group $U(N)$ are expressed in terms of the connected correlators of multiply-wound Wilson loops, using ingredients from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-30 Anthonny F. Canazas Garay , Alberto Faraggi , Wolfgang Mück

In canonical quantum gravity, when space is a compact manifold with boundary there is a Hamiltonian given by an integral over the boundary. Here we compute the action of this `boundary Hamiltonian' on observables corresponding to open…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 John Baez , Javier P. Muniain , Dardo Piriz

We find a holographic reconstruction formula for gravitational Wilson line network operators in AdS$_2$ evaluated between Ishibashi states of the algebra $sl(2,\mathbb{R})$. It is given in integral form where the integrand is the global…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-12 K. B. Alkalaev , V. S. Khiteev

JIMWLK equation tells how gauge invariant higher order Wilson line correlators would evolve at high energy. In this article we present a convenient integro-differential form of this equation, for 2n-tuple correlator, where all real and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Khatiza Banu , Mariyah Siddiqah , Raktim Abir

We study a two-dimensional theory of gravity coupled to matter that is relevant to describe holographic properties of black holes with a single rotational parameter in five dimensions (with or without cosmological constant). We focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Alejandra Castro , Juan F. Pedraza , Chiara Toldo , Evita Verheijden

We study general correlation functions of various quantum field theories in the holographic setup. Following the holographic proposal, we investigate correlation functions via a geodesic length connecting boundary operators. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-21 Hanse Kim , Jitendra Pal , Chanyong Park

Time-dependent spherically-symmetric perturbations of Schwarzschild black holes are studied within torsion bigravity, i.e., within generalized Einstein-Cartan theories where the dynamical torsion carries massive spin-2 excitation. We reduce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 Vasilisa Nikiforova

We find the Holographic Renormalization Group equations for the holographic duals of generic gravity theories coupled to form fields and spin-1/2 fermions. Using Hamilton-Jacobi theory we discuss the structure of Ward identities, anomalies,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Jussi Kalkkinen , Dario Martelli