scholarly journals LOCALIZATION AND KNOTS

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 195-196
Author(s):  
AKINORI TANAKA
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Group ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
Fundamental Representation ◽  
Localization Technique ◽  
Expectation Value ◽  
Three Sphere ◽  
Torus Knot

We study the 1/2 BPS condition of Wilson loop on squashed three-sphere, and find that the solution becomes torus knot or unknot. We also calculate the expectation value of 1/2 BPS Wilson loops by using localization technique with the gauge group U(2) and Wilson loop as fundamental representation. And it completely matches with known results.

scholarly journals Exact 1/N expansion of Wilson loop correlators in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 Super-Yang-Mills theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Mück
Keyword(s):  
Matrix Model ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Model Solution ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
Combinatorial Formula ◽  
Expectation Value ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Hooft Coupling ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Super Yang Mills Theory

Abstract Supersymmetric circular Wilson loops in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ 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 to the more general case of two different loop contours, which is needed to discuss coincident loops with opposite orientations. A combinatorial formula representing the connected correlators of multiply wound Wilson loops in terms of the matrix model solution is derived. Two new results are obtained on the expectation value of the circular Wilson loop, the expansion of which into a series in 1/N and to all orders in the ’t Hooft coupling λ was derived by Drukker and Gross about twenty years ago. The connected correlators of two multiply wound Wilson loops with arbitrary winding numbers are calculated as a series in 1/N. The coefficient functions are derived not only as power series in λ, but also to all orders in λ by expressing them in terms of the coefficients of the Drukker and Gross series. This provides an efficient way to calculate the 1/N series, which can probably be generalized to higher-point correlators.

NULL ZIG-ZAG WILSON LOOPS IN $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (08) ◽  
pp. 627-639
Author(s):  
ZHIFENG XIE
Keyword(s):  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
Finite Part ◽  
Expectation Value ◽  
Line Segments ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Circular Shape ◽  
The One ◽  
Arbitrary Shapes

In planar [Formula: see text] supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory we have studied one kind of (locally) BPS Wilson loops composed of a large number of light-like segments, i.e. null zig-zags. These contours oscillate around smooth underlying spacelike paths. At one-loop in perturbation theory, we have compared the finite part of the expectation value of null zig-zags to the finite part of the expectation value of non-scalar-coupled Wilson loops whose contours are the underlying smooth spacelike paths. In arXiv:0710.1060 [hep-th] it was argued that these quantities are equal for the case of a rectangular Wilson loop. Here we present a modest extension of this result to zig-zags of circular shape and zig-zags following non-parallel, disconnected line segments and show analytically that the one-loop finite part is indeed that given by the smooth spacelike Wilson loop without coupling to scalars which the zig-zag contour approximates. We make some comments regarding the generalization to arbitrary shapes.

scholarly journals Wilson loops in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 SO(N) SYM and D-branes in AdS5 × ℝℙ5

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Giombi ◽  
Bendeguz Offertaler
Keyword(s):  
String Theory ◽  
Gauge Group ◽  
Strong Coupling ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Spinor Representation ◽  
Classical Action ◽  
Expectation Value ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Coupling Behavior ◽  
Type Iib String Theory

Abstract We study the half-BPS circular Wilson loop in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 super Yang-Mills with orthogonal gauge group. By supersymmetric localization, its expectation value can be computed exactly from a matrix integral over the Lie algebra of SO(N). We focus on the large N limit and present some simple quantitative tests of the duality with type IIB string theory in AdS5× ℝℙ5. In particular, we show that the strong coupling limit of the expectation value of the Wilson loop in the spinor representation of the gauge group precisely matches the classical action of the dual string theory object, which is expected to be a D5-brane wrapping a ℝℙ4 subspace of ℝℙ5. We also briefly discuss the large N, large λ limits of the SO(N) Wilson loop in the symmetric/antisymmetric representations and their D3/D5-brane duals. Finally, we use the D5-brane description to extract the leading strong coupling behavior of the “bremsstrahlung function” associated to a spinor probe charge, or equivalently the normalization of the two-point function of the displacement operator on the spinor Wilson loop, and obtain agreement with the localization prediction.

scholarly journals Double-winding Wilson loops in SU(N) Yang-Mills theory – A criterion for testing the confinement models –

2018 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 12002
Author(s):  
Ryutaro Matsudo ◽  
Kei-Ichi Kondo ◽  
Akihiro Shibata
Keyword(s):  
Wilson Loop ◽  
String Tension ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Fundamental Representation ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Operator Relation ◽  
Higher Dimensional ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Area Law

We examine how the average of double-winding Wilson loops depends on the number of color N in the SU(N) Yang-Mills theory. In the case where the two loops C1 and C2 are identical, we derive the exact operator relation which relates the doublewinding Wilson loop operator in the fundamental representation to that in the higher dimensional representations depending on N. By taking the average of the relation, we find that the difference-of-areas law for the area law falloff recently claimed for N = 2 is excluded for N ⩾ 3, provided that the string tension obeys the Casimir scaling for the higher representations. In the case where the two loops are distinct, we argue that the area law follows a novel law (N − 3)A1/(N − 1) + A2 with A1 and A2(A1 < A2) being the minimal areas spanned respectively by the loops C1 and C2, which is neither sum-ofareas (A1 + A2) nor difference-of-areas (A2 − A1) law when (N ⩾ 3). Indeed, this behavior can be confirmed in the two-dimensional SU(N) Yang-Mills theory exactly.

scholarly journals On three-point functions in ABJM and the latitude Wilson loop

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco S. Bianchi
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Group ◽  
Matrix Model ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Weak Coupling ◽  
Structure Constant ◽  
Loop Order ◽  
Expectation Value ◽  
The Matrix

Abstract I consider three-point functions of twist-one operators in ABJM at weak coupling. I compute the structure constant of correlators involving one twist-one un-protected operator and two protected ones for a few finite values of the spin, up to two-loop order. As an application I enforce a limit on the gauge group ranks, in which I relate the structure constant for three chiral primary operators to the expectation value of a supersymmetric Wilson loop. Such a relation is then used to perform a successful five-loop test on the matrix model conjectured to describe the supersymmetric Wilson loop.

scholarly journals Symmetric Wilson Loops beyond leading order

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinyi Chen-Lin
Keyword(s):  
Strong Coupling ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Order Term ◽  
Exact Result ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Fundamental Representation ◽  
Symmetric Representation ◽  
Yang Mills

We study the circular Wilson loop in the symmetric representation of U(N)U(N) in mathcal{N} = 4𝒩=4 super-Yang-Mills (SYM). In the large NN limit, we computed the exponentially-suppressed corrections for strong coupling, which suggests non-perturbative physics in the dual holographic theory. We also computed the next-to-leading order term in 1/N1/N, and the result matches with the exact result from the kk-fundamental representation.

scholarly journals The planar limit of $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2 superconformal quiver theories

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bartomeu Fiol ◽  
Jairo Martfnez-Montoya ◽  
Alan Rios Fukelman
Keyword(s):  
Free Energy ◽  
Ising Model ◽  
Gauge Group ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Cartan Matrix ◽  
Partition Functions ◽  
Expectation Value ◽  
Tree Graphs ◽  
Fundamental Matter ◽  
Planar Limit

Abstract We compute the planar limit of both the free energy and the expectation value of the 1/2 BPS wilson loop for four dimensional $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 superconformal quiver theories, with a product of SU(N)s as gauge group and hi-fundamental matter. Supersymmetric localization reduces the problem to a multi-matrix model, that we rewrite in the zero­ instanton sector as an effective action involving an infinite number of double-trace terms, determined by the relevant extended Cartan matrix. We find that the results, as in the case of $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 SCFTs with a simple gauge group, can be written as sums over tree graphs. For the $$ \hat{A_1} $$ A 1 ̂ case, we find that the contribution of each tree can be interpreted as the partition function of a generalized Ising model defined on the tree; we conjecture that the partition functions of these models defined on trees satisfy the Lee-Yang property, i.e. all their zeros lie on the unit circle.

scholarly journals Entanglement entropy for $$ \mathrm{T}\overline{\mathrm{T}} $$, $$ \mathrm{J}\overline{\mathrm{T}} $$, $$ \mathrm{T}\overline{\mathrm{J}} $$ deformed holographic CFT

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soumangsu Chakraborty ◽  
Akikazu Hashimoto
Keyword(s):  
Parameter Space ◽  
Wilson Loop ◽  
Lorentz Invariance ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Geodesic Equation ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Theoretic Analysis ◽  
Expectation Value ◽  
Spatial Coordinates ◽  
Single Trace

Abstract We derive the geodesic equation for determining the Ryu-Takayanagi surface in AdS3 deformed by single trace $$ \mu T\overline{T} $$ μT T ¯ + $$ {\varepsilon}_{+}J\overline{T} $$ ε + J T ¯ + $$ {\varepsilon}_{-}T\overline{J} $$ ε − T J ¯ deformation for generic values of (μ, ε+, ε−) for which the background is free of singularities. For generic values of ε±, Lorentz invariance is broken, and the Ryu-Takayanagi surface embeds non-trivially in time as well as spatial coordinates. We solve the geodesic equation and characterize the UV and IR behavior of the entanglement entropy and the Casini-Huerta c-function. We comment on various features of these observables in the (μ, ε+, ε−) parameter space. We discuss the matching at leading order in small (μ, ε+, ε−) expansion of the entanglement entropy between the single trace deformed holographic system and a class of double trace deformed theories where a strictly field theoretic analysis is possible. We also comment on expectation value of a large rectangular Wilson loop-like observable.

scholarly journals On topological recursion for Wilson loops in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 SYM at strong coupling

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Beccaria ◽  
A. Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Strong Coupling ◽  
Matrix Model ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
Expectation Value ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Usual Procedure ◽  
Topological Recursion ◽  
Sample Application ◽  
Single Trace ◽  
Genus Expansion

Abstract We consider U(N) $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory and discuss how to extract the strong coupling limit of non-planar corrections to observables involving the $$ \frac{1}{2} $$ 1 2 -BPS Wilson loop. Our approach is based on a suitable saddle point treatment of the Eynard-Orantin topological recursion in the Gaussian matrix model. Working directly at strong coupling we avoid the usual procedure of first computing observables at finite planar coupling λ, order by order in 1/N, and then taking the λ ≫ 1 limit. In the proposed approach, matrix model multi-point resolvents take a simplified form and some structures of the genus expansion, hardly visible at low order, may be identified and rigorously proved. As a sample application, we consider the expectation value of multiple coincident circular supersymmetric Wilson loops as well as their correlator with single trace chiral operators. For these quantities we provide novel results about the structure of their genus expansion at large tension, generalising recent results in arXiv:2011.02885.

scholarly journals Exact results and Schur expansions in quiver Chern-Simons-matter theories

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Santilli ◽  
Miguel Tierz
Keyword(s):  
Simons Theory ◽  
Partition Functions ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
Model Formulation ◽  
Schur Polynomials ◽  
Three Sphere ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Chern Simons ◽  
Chern Simons Theory

Abstract We study several quiver Chern-Simons-matter theories on the three-sphere, combining the matrix model formulation with a systematic use of Mordell’s integral, computing partition functions and checking dualities. We also consider Wilson loops in ABJ(M) theories, distinguishing between typical (long) and atypical (short) representations and focusing on the former. Using the Berele-Regev factorization of supersymmetric Schur polynomials, we express the expectation value of the Wilson loops in terms of sums of observables of two factorized copies of U(N ) pure Chern-Simons theory on the sphere. Then, we use the Cauchy identity to study the partition functions of a number of quiver Chern-Simons-matter models and the result is interpreted as a perturbative expansion in the parameters tj = −e2πmj , where mj are the masses. Through the paper, we incorporate different generalizations, such as deformations by real masses and/or Fayet-Iliopoulos parameters, the consideration of a Romans mass in the gravity dual, and adjoint matter.

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