1/2-BPS Wilson–’t Hooft loops

2006/07/31 by Bin Chen, Wei He · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Topics in Algebra #History and Theory of Mathematics #Mathematics and Applications #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.74.126008

published as Phys.Rev.D74:126008,2006 · 20 pages, JHEP3 class;v2:Typos corrected,a misstatement corrected;v3:minor changes,full $SL(2,Z)$ duality completed

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Abstract

We investigate the 1/2-BPS Wilson--'t Hooft loops in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We use the bulk D-brane with both electric and magnetic charges to calculate the all-genus contribution of the circular loops. The expectation values of Wilson--'t Hooft loops are in perfect agreement with the result through supersymmetric condition and duality transformation in the gauge theory.

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