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ABCD of 't Hooft operators

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-05-12 v2

Abstract

We compute by supersymmetric localization the expectation values of half-BPS 't Hooft line operators in N=2\mathcal{N}=2 U(N)U(N), SO(N)SO(N) and USp(N)USp(N) gauge theories on S1×R3S^1 \times \mathbb{R}^3 with an Ω\Omega-deformation. We evaluate the non-perturbative contributions due to monopole screening by calculating the supersymmetric indices of the corresponding supersymmetric quantum mechanics, which we obtain by realizing the gauge theories and the 't Hooft operators using branes and orientifolds in type II string theories.

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@article{arxiv.2012.12275,
  title  = {ABCD of 't Hooft operators},
  author = {Hirotaka Hayashi and Takuya Okuda and Yutaka Yoshida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.12275},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

76 pages, many figures; v2: comments added, statements clarified, typos fixed, version in JHEP

R2 v1 2026-06-23T21:14:12.868Z