Line Operator Index on S1 X S3

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作者
Gang, Dongming [1 ]
Koh, Eunkyung [1 ]
Lee, Kimyeong [1 ]
机构
[1] Korea Inst Adv Study, Seoul 130012, South Korea
来源
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS | 2012年 / 05期
基金
新加坡国家研究基金会;
关键词
Supersymmetric gauge theory; Wilson; 't Hooft and Polyakov loops; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Nonperturbative Effects; SUPERCONFORMAL INDEXES; N=1;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP05(2012)007
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We derive a general formula of an index for N = 2 superconformal field theories on S-1 x S-3 with insertions of BPS Wilson line or 't Hooft line operator at the north pole and their anti-counterpart at the south pole of S-3. One-loop and monopole bubbling effects are taken into account in the computation. As examples, we calculate the indices for N - 4 theories and N = 2 SU(2) theory with N-f = 4, and find good agreements between indices of line operators related by S-duality. The relation between Verlinde loop operators and the indices is explored. The holographic correspondence between the fundamental (anti-symmetric) Wilson line operator and the fundamental string (D5 brane) in AdS(5) x S-5 is confirmed by the index comparison.
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