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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 study the half-BPS circular Wilson loop in ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills with orthogonal gauge group. By supersymmetric localization, its expectation value can be computed exactly from a matrix integral over the Lie algebra of $SO(N)$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-22 Simone Giombi , Bendeguz Offertaler

In this work we consider colour-ordered correlation functions of the fields in integrable planar gauge theories such as N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with the aim to establish Ward-Takahashi identities corresponding to Yangian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-22 Niklas Beisert , Aleksander Garus

We study half-BPS line operators in 3d N=4 gauge theories, focusing in particular on the algebras of local operators at their junctions. It is known that there are two basic types of such line operators, distinguished by the SUSY…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Tudor Dimofte , Niklas Garner , Michael Geracie , Justin Hilburn

We propose a nonperturbative framework to study general correlation functions of single-trace operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at large $N$. The basic strategy is to decompose them into fundamental building…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Thiago Fleury , Shota Komatsu

We study the connected correlator of 1/2 BPS winding Wilson loops in $\mathcal{N}=4$ $U(N)$ super Yang-Mills theory, where those Wilson loops are on top of each other along the same circle. We find the exact finite $N$ expression of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Kazumi Okuyama

We study correlation functions of local operator insertions on the 1/2-BPS Wilson line in ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. These correlation functions are constrained by the 1d superconformal symmetry preserved by the 1/2-BPS Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-20 Simone Giombi , Radu Roiban , Arkady A. Tseytlin

We study the correlators of half-BPS protected operators in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, in the limit where the positions of the adjacent operators become light-like separated. We compute the loop corrections by means of Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-09 Burkhard Eden , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Emery Sokatchev

Recently Dorigoni, Green and Wen conjectured a remarkable exact formula for an integrated correlator of four superconformal primary operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. In this work, we investigate its large $N$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Kazumi Okuyama

We discuss the properties of quarter-BPS local operators in four dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory using the formalism of holomorphic twists. We study loop corrections both to the space of local operators and to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Kasia Budzik , Davide Gaiotto , Justin Kulp , Brian R. Williams , Jingxiang Wu , Matthew Yu

We consider non-planar contributions to the correlation functions of BMN operators in free N = 4 super Yang Mills theory. We recalculate these non-planar contributions from a different kind of diagram and find some exact agreements. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Min-xin Huang

We study 1/2-BPS Wilson loop operators in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on $d$-dimensional spheres. Their vacuum expectation values can be computed at large $N$ through supersymmetric localisation. The holographic duals are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-08 Davide Astesiano , Pieter Bomans , Fridrik Freyr Gautason , Valentina Giangreco M. Puletti , Alexia Nix

We compute supersymmetric indices which count local operators at certain half-BPS interfaces and quarter-BPS junctions of interfaces in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory. We use the indices as very stringent tests of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-19 Davide Gaiotto , Tadashi Okazaki

In this note we study half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills for gauge group SU(N) at finite N. In particular we elaborate on the results of hep-th/0410236, providing an exact formula for the null basis operators algorithmically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-16 T. W. Brown

We extend the recent conjecture on the relation between a certain 1/8 BPS subsector of 4d N=4 SYM on S^2 and 2d Yang-Mills theory by turning on circular 1/2 BPS 't Hooft operators linked with S^2. We show that localization predicts that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-24 Simone Giombi , Vasily Pestun

We study singular time-dependent $\frac{1}{8}$-BPS configurations in the abelian sector of ${{\mathcal N}= 4}$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory that represent BPS string-like defects in ${{\mathbb R}\times S^3}$ spacetime. Such BPS strings…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Sujay K. Ashok , Varun Gupta , Nemani V. Suryanarayana

We study the four-point function of the lowest-lying half-BPS operators in the ${\cal N} =4$ $SU(N)$ super-Yang-Mills theory and its relation to the flat-space four-graviton amplitude in type IIB superstring theory. We work in a large-$N$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Shai M. Chester , Michael B. Green , Silviu S. Pufu , Yifan Wang , Congkao Wen

We start a systematic study of quarter-BPS operators in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills with gauge group $\mathrm{SU}(N)$ making use of recently developed tools in conformal field theory. We adapt the technology of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Agnese Bissi , Giulia Fardelli , Andrea Manenti

We consider a set of half-BPS operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory which are appropriate for describing single-particle states of superstring theory on AdS${}_5 \times S^5$. These single-particle operators are defined to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 F. Aprile , J. M. Drummond , P. Heslop , H. Paul , F. Sanfilippo , M. Santagata , A. Stewart

We study configurations of two $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theories of unitary gauge groups connected by the BPS interfaces involving line operators. We find strong evidence of S-duality of the configurations as precise matching of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-11 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Tadashi Okazaki