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

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-09 Lorenzo De Lillo , Alessandro Pini

We study the quantum properties of certain BPS Wilson loops in ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. They belong to a general family, introduced recently, in which the addition of particular scalar couplings endows generic loops on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Antonio Bassetto , Luca Griguolo , Fabrizio Pucci , Domenico Seminara

We use modern bootstrap techniques to study half-BPS line defects in 4d N=4 superconformal theories. Specifically, we consider the 1d CFT with OSP(4*|4) superconformal symmetry living on such a defect. Our analysis is general and based only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Pedro Liendo , Carlo Meneghelli , Vladimir Mitev

We study insertions of composite operators into Wilson loops in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions. The loops follow a circular or straight path and the composite insertions transform in the adjoint representation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nadav Drukker , Shoichi Kawamoto

We explore aspects of the correspondence between Seifert 3-manifolds and 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric theories with a distinguished abelian flavour symmetry. We give a prescription for computing the squashed three-sphere partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-03 Luis Fernando Alday , Pietro Benetti Genolini , Mathew Bullimore , Mark van Loon

We use the embedding formalism to study correlation functions of a d-dimensional Euclidean CFT in the presence of a $q$ co-dimensional defect. The defect breaks the global conformal group $SO(d+1,1)$ into $SO(d-q+1,1) \times SO(q)$. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-06 Sunny Guha , Balakrishnan Nagaraj

We compute at strong coupling the large N correlation functions of supersymmetric Wilson loops in large representations of the gauge group with local operators of N=4 super Yang-Mills. The gauge theory computation of these correlators is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-29 Jaume Gomis , Shunji Matsuura , Takuya Okuda , Diego Trancanelli

We calculate partition function and correlation functions in A-twisted 2d $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ theories and topologically twisted 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories containing adjoint chiral multiplet with particular choices of $R$-charges and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Hee-Joong Chung , Yutaka Yoshida

We present a constructive derivation of holographic four-point correlators of arbitrary half-BPS operators for all maximally supersymmetric conformal field theories in $d>2$. This includes holographic correlators in 3d ${\cal N}=8$ ABJM…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-24 Luis F. Alday , Xinan Zhou

We consider BPS Wilson loops in planar ABJM theory, wound multiple times around the great circle. We compute the expectation value of the 1/6-BPS and 1/2-BPS Wilson loops to three- and two-loop order in perturbation theory, respectively,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Marco S. Bianchi

We consider semiclassical computation of 3-point correlation functions of (BPS or non-BPS) string states represented by vertex operators carrying large charges in S5. We argue that the AdS5 part of the construction of relevant semiclassical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 E. I. Buchbinder , A. A. Tseytlin

For N-extended superconformal field theories in three spacetime dimensions (3D), with N=1,2,3, we compute the two- and three-point correlation functions of the supercurrent and the flavour current multiplets. We demonstrate that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-02 Evgeny I. Buchbinder , Sergei M. Kuzenko , Igor B. Samsonov

We study the four-point correlation function of stress-tensor supermultiplets in N=4 SYM using the method of Lagrangian insertions. We argue that, as a corollary of N=4 superconformal symmetry, the resulting all-loop integrand possesses an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Burkhard Eden , Paul Heslop , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Emery Sokatchev

We study correlation functions in topologically twisted $\mathcal{N}=2, d=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory for gauge groups of rank larger than one on compact four-manifolds $X$. We find that the topological invariance of the generator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Marcos Marino , Gregory Moore

We compute $1/\lambda$ corrections to the four-point functions of half-BPS operators in $SU(N)$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at large $N$ and large 't Hooft coupling $\lambda=g_\text{YM}^2 N$ using two methods. Firstly, we relate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Damon J. Binder , Shai M. Chester , Silviu S. Pufu , Yifan Wang

We calculate the non-abelian R-charges of BPS monopole operators in three-dimensional gauge theories with N=3 supersymmetry. This class of models includes ABJM theory, the proposed gauge theory dual of M-theory on AdS_4 x S^7/Z_k, as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Marcus K. Benna , Igor R. Klebanov , Thomas Klose

We study the correlators of the 2d W_N minimal model in the semiclassical regime with large central charge from bulk viewpoint by utilizing open Wilson lines in sl(N) Chern-Simons gauge theory. We extend previous works for the tree level of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-01 Yasuaki Hikida , Takahiro Uetoko

Following Polchinski and Sully (arXiv:1104.5077), we consider a generalized Wilson loop operator containing a constant parameter $\zeta$ in front of the scalar coupling term, so that $\zeta=0$ corresponds to the standard Wilson loop, while…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-12 Matteo Beccaria , Simone Giombi , Arkady Tseytlin

We use the superconformal bootstrap to derive exact relations between OPE coefficients in three-dimensional superconformal field theories with ${\cal N} \geq 4$ supersymmetry. These relations follow from a consistent truncation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-30 Shai M. Chester , Jaehoon Lee , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

We continue our study of renormalization group (RG) flows on Wilson loop defects in ABJM theory, which we have initiated in arXiv:2211.16501. We generalize that analysis by including non-supersymmetric fixed points and RG trajectories. To…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Luigi Castiglioni , Silvia Penati , Marcia Tenser , Diego Trancanelli