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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

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 four-point correlator $\langle \mathcal{O}_2 \mathcal{O}_2 \mathcal{D} \mathcal{D} \rangle$ in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory (SYM) with $SU(N)$ gauge group, where $\mathcal{O}_2$ represents the superconformal primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-10 Augustus Brown , Francesco Galvagno , Congkao Wen

We study the unflavored Schur indices in the $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory for the $B_n,C_n,D_n, G_2$ gauge groups. We explore two methods, namely the character expansion method and the Fermi gas method, to efficiently compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-16 Bao-ning Du , Min-xin Huang , Xin Wang

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 use the relation between 2d Yang-Mills and Brownian motion to show that 2d Yang-Mills on the cylinder is related to Chern-Simons theory in a class of lens spaces. Alternatively, this can be regarded as 2dYM computing certain correlators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sebastian de Haro

We propose a triality relating the Double-Scaled SYK model, $SL(2,\mathbb{C})$ Chern-Simons theory on a disk with an irregular singularity at the center and the outcome of ``real Schur quantization'' applied to $SU(2)$ Seiberg-Witten theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-19 Davide Gaiotto , Herman Verlinde

Supersymmetric circular Wilson loops in $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super-Yang-Mills theory are discussed starting from their Gaussian matrix model representations. Previous results on the generating functions of Wilson loops are reviewed and extended…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-06 Wolfgang Mück

The present paper is the first installment where, extending our previous work in pure Yang-Mills (YM) theory, we compute the generating functional of correlators of collinear twist-$2$ operators that enter the components of balanced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-28 Marco Bochicchio , Mauro Papinutto , Francesco Scardino

We derive a manifestly superconformal expression for the leading-order two-point functions of all single trace chiral primary operators in 4d $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory with a co-dimension one Nahm pole defect. Notably, our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-07 Jonah Baerman , Adam Chalabi , Charlotte Kristjansen

We develop techniques to study the correlation functions of "large operators" whose bare dimension grows parametrically with N, in SO(N) gauge theory. We build the operators from a single complex matrix. For these operators, the large N…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Pawel Caputa , Robert de Mello Koch , Pablo Diaz

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 perform Monte Carlo calculation of correlation functions in 4d N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on R*S^3 in the planar limit. In order to circumvent the well-known problem of lattice SUSY, we adopt the idea of a novel large-N reduction, which…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-18 Masazumi Honda , Goro Ishiki , Sang-Woo Kim , Jun Nishimura , Asato Tsuchiya

Recently the Schur index of ${\cal N}=4$ SYM was evaluated in closed form to all orders including exponential corrections in the large $N$ expansion and for fixed finite $N$. This was achieved by identifying the matrix model which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Nadav Drukker

The Schur index in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory with $U(N)$ gauge group has a natural two-parameter deformation. We find that a matrix integral in such a deformed Schur index can be exactly evaluated by using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-07 Yasuyuki Hatsuda

Certain correlation functions are computed exactly in the zero coupling limit of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory with gauge group SU(N). A set of linearly independent operators that are in one-to-one correspondence with the half-BPS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert de Mello Koch , Rhiannon Gwyn

Based on the D5-brane realization of Wilson line operators in anti-symmetric representations, we propose brane expansion formulas for $I_{N,k}$, the Schur index of ${\cal N}=4$ $U(N)$ SYM decorated by line operators in the anti-symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-01 Yosuke Imamura , Masato Inoue

We study the correlators of bulk and defect half-BPS operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory with a Maldacena-Wilson line defect, focusing on the case involving one bulk and two defect local operators. We analyze the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-15 Daniele Artico , Julien Barrat , Yingxuan Xu

We analytically study the Fermi-gas formulation of sphere correlation functions of the Coulomb branch operators for 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ ADHM theory with a gauge group $U(N)$, an adjoint hypermultiplet and $l$ hypermultiplets which can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-10 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Tadashi Okazaki

We consider conformal N=2 super Yang-Mills theories with gauge group SU(N) and Nf=2N fundamental hypermultiplets in presence of a circular 1/2-BPS Wilson loop. It is natural to conjecture that the matrix model which describes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 M. Billo , F. Galvagno , P. Gregori , A. Lerda