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We study the Coulomb-branch sector of 3D $\mathcal{N}=4$ gauge theories with half-hypermultiplets in general pseudoreal representations $\mathbf{R}$ ("noncotangent" theories). This yields (short) quantization of the Coulomb branch and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Mykola Dedushenko , Daniel Resnick

We derive the perturbative expansion of a particular integrated correlator of two superconformal primary operators in the stress tensor multiplet of $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric $SU(N)$ Yang-Mills theory in the presence of a half-BPS 't…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-04 Daniele Dorigoni

We study correlators of insertions along 1/2 BPS line defects in the holographic dual to type IIB string theory in $AdS_3 \times S^3 \times T^4$ with mixed Ramond-Ramond and Neveu Schwarz-Neveu Schwarz three-form flux. These defects break…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-04 Gabriel Bliard , Diego H. Correa , Martín Lagares , Ignacio Salazar Landea

We consider the vacuum expectation values of 1/2-BPS circular Wilson loops in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in the totally antisymmetric representation of the gauge group U(N) or SU(N). Localization and matrix model techniques provide exact,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-29 Anthonny F. Canazas Garay , Alberto Faraggi , Wolfgang Mück

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 perform an exact localization calculation for the expectation values of Wilson-'t Hooft line operators in N=2 gauge theories on S^1xR^3. The expectation values are naturally expressed in terms of the complexified Fenchel-Nielsen…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-30 Yuto Ito , Takuya Okuda , Masato Taki

Exact results in supersymmetric Chern-Simons and N=2 Yang-Mills theories can be used to examine the quantum behavior of observables and the structure of the perturbative series. For the U(2) x U(2) ABJM model, we determine the asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Jorge G. Russo

We study operators in four-dimensional gauge theories which are localized on a straight line, create electric and magnetic flux, and in the UV limit break the conformal invariance in the minimal possible way. We call them Wilson-'t Hooft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Anton Kapustin

We find matching pairs of the line defect indices for 3d supersymmetric Abelian gauge theories as strong evidence of dualities of the BPS line operators. They lead to novel duality maps of the BPS line operators for $\mathcal{N}\ge 4$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-25 Hirotaka Hayashi , Tomoki Nosaka , Tadashi Okazaki

We consider two four-dimensional SCFTs with gauge group $Sp(N)$: the $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory and the $\mathcal{N}=2$ theory with four hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation and one hypermultiplet in the rank-2 antisymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-10 Lorenzo De Lillo , Marialuisa Frau , Alessandro Pini

We propose a holographic realization of symmetry operators for symmetries associated to isometries in terms of non-BPS Kaluza-Klein monopoles. Their existence is supported by dualities, and their action can be inferred by consistency with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-02 Hugo Calvo , Francesco Mignosa , Diego Rodriguez-Gomez

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

In this paper, we investigate the 1/4 BPS Wilson-'t Hooft loops in $\mathcal{N}$=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We use the bulk D3-brane solutions with both electric and magnetic charges on its world-volume to describe some of 1/4 BPS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-15 Chang-Yong Liu , Li Qin

Integrable $su(2\vert2)_{c}$ symmetric models have integrable boundaries with $osp(2\vert2)$ symmetries, which can be embedded into $su(2\vert2)_{c}$ in two different ways. We dualize the previously obtained asymptotic overlap formulas for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-28 Tamas Gombor , Zoltán Bajnok

In this work, we uncover a collection of non invertible topological operators linked to the 0-, 2-, 4- and 6-form symmetries related to the type IIB superstring effective theory. By pinpointing the $\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})$-covariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-05 Jose J. Fernandez-Melgarejo , Giacomo Giorgi , Diego Marques , J. A. Rosabal

We define supersymmetric spin networks, which provide a complete set of gauge invariant states for supergravity and supersymmetric gauge theories. The particular case of Osp(1/2) is studied in detail and applied to the non-perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Yi Ling , Lee Smolin

We find the basic ingredients required to compute the Operator Product Expansion of Wilson-'t Hooft operators in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory with gauge group G=PSU(3). These include the geometry of certain moduli spaces of BPS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Natalia Saulina

We study BPS loop operators in a 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ $Sp(N)$ gauge theory with four hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation and one hypermultiplet in the anti-symmetric representation. The algebra of BPS loop operators in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-07 Yutaka Yoshida

We compute the simplest non-trivial Operator Product Expansion of Wilson-'t Hooft loop operators in N=4 and N=2 Super-Yang-Mills theory with gauge group G=PSU(3). This amounts to finding the Euler characters of certain vector bundles,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-02 Ruxandra Moraru , Natalia Saulina

Using the harmonic superspace approach, we construct the three-dimensional N=4 supersymmetric quantum mechanics of the supermultiplet (3,4,1) coupled to an external SU(2) gauge field. The off-shell N=4 supersymmetry requires the gauge field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-16 Evgeny Ivanov , Maxim Konyushikhin