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We derive a general formula of an index for N = 2 superconformal field theories on S1 \times S3 with insertions of BPS Wilson line or 't Hooft line operator at the north pole and their anti-counterpart at the south pole of S3. One-loop and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Dongmin Gang , Eunkyung Koh , Kimyeong Lee

As an exact count of protected states, the superconformal index provides a powerful probe into holography and quantum aspects of gravity, reproducing the Bekenstein--Hawking entropy of supersymmetric AdS black holes in the large-$N$ limit.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Chiung Hwang , Chang Lei , Yuezhang Tang

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

The Wilson line defect half-indices for 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories with boundary confining phases admit a formulation in terms of the Askey-Wilson type moments. In the dual Landau-Ginzburg description the dual line operators can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-17 Tadashi Okazaki , Douglas J. Smith

We conjecture closed-form expressions for the Macdonald limits of the superconformal indices of the (A_1, A_{2n-3}) and (A_1, D_{2n}) Argyres-Douglas (AD) theories in terms of certain simple deformations of Macdonald polynomials. As checks…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Matthew Buican , Takahiro Nishinaka

We investigate 4D Chern-Simons theory with ADE gauge symmetries in the presence of interacting Wilson and 't Hooft line defects. We analyse the intrinsic properties of these lines' coupling and explicate the building of oscillator-type Lax…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-30 Y. Boujakhrout , E. H Saidi , R. Ahl Laamara , L. B Drissi

Scalar-fermion models, such as the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model, admit natural $1d$ defects given by the exponential of a scalar field integrated along a straight line. In $4-\varepsilon$ dimensions the defect coupling is weakly relevant and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-29 Julien Barrat , Pedro Liendo , Philine van Vliet

We consider 4d $\mathcal N=4$ $U(N)$ SYM and the leading giant graviton correction to the Schur defect 2-point functions of $\frac{1}{2}$-BPS Wilson lines in rank-$k$ symmetric and antisymmetric representations. We study in particular the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-22 Matteo Beccaria

We consider the Wilson line networks of the Chern-Simons $3d$ gravity theory with toroidal boundary conditions which calculate global conformal blocks of degenerate quasi-primary operators in torus $2d$ CFT. After general discussion that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 K. B. Alkalaev , V. A. Belavin

We formulate a conjectural relation between the category of line defects in topologically twisted 3d ${\cal N} = 4$ supersymmetric quantum field theories and categories of modules for Vertex Operator Algebras of boundary local operators for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-12 Kevin Costello , Thomas Creutzig , Davide Gaiotto

We calculate the Wilson coefficients of dimension 6 gluon operators with spin indices in the two point correlation function of the heavy scalar, pseudoscalar, and axialvector currents. Our result completes the list of all Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 HyungJoo Kim , Su Houng Lee

We study the AdS/CFT correspondence with a brane extending in AdS, a setup which is dual to CFT in the presence of a defect. We focus on the correlation function of two local operators and the defect, which is the simplest observable with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-22 Aleix Gimenez-Grau

We study multipoint correlators of protected scalars on the Maldacena-Wilson line in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. Working at weak coupling in the planar limit, we derive an explicit recursion relation that captures next-to-leading order correlators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-24 Julien Barrat , Pedro Liendo , Giulia Peveri , Jan Plefka

We describe a simple method of extending AdS_5 black string solutions of 5d gauged supergravity in a supersymmetric way by addition of Wilson lines along a circular direction in space. When this direction is chosen along the string, and due…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Kiril Hristov , Stefanos Katmadas

We study the large $N$ and large representation limits of the Schur line defect correlators of the Wilson line operators transforming in the (anti)symmetric, hook and rectangular representations for $\mathcal{N}=4$ $U(N)$ super Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-19 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Tadashi Okazaki

We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to explicitly calculate some of the three-point functions in the planar limit of the 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ Leigh-Strassler SCFT. This strongly interacting CFT can be obtained as a mass deformation of the 4d…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-23 Nikolay Bobev , Hynek Paul

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 examine the giant graviton expansions of the Coulomb and Higgs indices for the M2-brane SCFTs to find the closed-form expressions for the indices that encode the spectra of the $1/4$-BPS M5-brane giant gravitons and the $1/3$-BPS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-20 Hirotaka Hayashi , Tomoki Nosaka , Tadashi Okazaki

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

Working in the context of the proposed duality between 3D higher spin gravity and 2D W_N minimal model CFTs, we compute a class of four-point functions in the bulk and on the boundary, and demonstrate precise agreement between them. This is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Eliot Hijano , Per Kraus , Eric Perlmutter