Loop and surface operators in gauge theory and Liouville modular geometry

LF Alday, D Gaiotto, S Gukov, Y Tachikawa… - Journal of High Energy …, 2010 - Springer
Recently, a duality between Liouville theory and four dimensional\(\mathcal {N}= 2\) gauge
theory has been uncovered by some of the authors. We consider the role of extended …

New modular invariants in = 4 Super-Yang-Mills theory

SM Chester, MB Green, SS Pufu, Y Wang… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We study modular invariants arising in the four-point functions of the stress tensor
multiplet operators of the\(\mathcal {N}\)= 4 SU (N) super-Yang-Mills theory, in the limit …

Classifying superconformal defects in diverse dimensions part I: superconformal lines

NB Agmon, Y Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2009.06650, 2020 - arxiv.org
We initiate the classification of unitary superconformal defects in unitary superconformal field
theories (SCFT) of diverse spacetime dimensions $3\leq d\leq 6$. Our method explores …

Schur index and line operators

Z Guo, Y Li, Y Pan, Y Wang - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
4D N= 2 superconformal field theories and their invariants can be often enriched by nonlocal
Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield operators. In this paper we study the flavored Schur index …

Gauge theory loop operators and Liouville theory

N Drukker, J Gomis, T Okuda, J Teschner - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010 - Springer
We propose a correspondence between loop operators in a family of four
dimensional\(\mathcal {N}\)= 2 gauge theories on S 4—including Wilson,'t Hooft and dyonic …

One-point functions in defect CFT and integrability

M de Leeuw, C Kristjansen, K Zarembo - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We calculate planar tree level one-point functions of non-protected operators in the
defect conformal field theory dual to the D3-D5 brane system with k units of the world volume …

Snowmass white paper on SCFTs

PC Argyres, JJ Heckman, K Intriligator… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Superconformal field theories (SCFTs) occupy a central role in the study of many aspects of
quantum field theory. In this white paper for the Snowmass process we give a brief overview …

The virtue of defects in 4D gauge theories and 2D CFTs

N Drukker, D Gaiotto, J Gomis - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011 - Springer
We advance a correspondence between the topological defect operators in Liouville and
Toda conformal field theories—which we construct—and loop operators and domain wall …

Logarithmic corrections to extremal black hole entropy from quantum entropy function

S Banerjee, RK Gupta, A Sen - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011 - Springer
We evaluate the one loop determinant of matter multiplet fields of\(\mathcal {N}= 4\)
supergravity in the near horizon geometry of quarter BPS black holes, and use it to calculate …

Electromagnetic duality for line defect correlators in = 4 super Yang-Mills theory

D Dorigoni, Z Duan, DR Pavarini, C Wen… - Journal of High Energy …, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We study particular integrated correlation functions of two superconformal primary
operators of the stress tensor multiplet in the presence of a half-BPS line defect labelled by …