On some 1/4 BPS Wilson-'t Hooft loops

2015/05/24 by Chang-Yong Liu, Li Qin, Liu, Chang-Yong +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1505.06399

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the 1/4 BPS Wilson-'t Hooft loops in 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 Wilson-'t Hooft loops. The D3-brane supersymmetric solutions are derived form requiring κ-symmetry. We find the two consistent constraints for Killing spinors and calculate the conserved charges of straight 1/4 BPS Wilson-'t Hooft loops and expectation values of circular 1/4 BPS Wilson-'t Hooft loops separately.

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