Wilson loops in 5d N=1 theories and S-duality

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2018)082MaRDI QIDQ1627329zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Benjamin Assel, Antonio Sciarappa

Publication date 22 November 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09636

zbMATH Keywords

D-branesfield theories in higher dimensionssupersymmetry and dualityWilson, 't Hooft and Polyakov loops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We study the action of S-duality on half-BPS Wilson loop operators in 5d $mathcalN=1$ theories. The duality is the statement that different massive deformations of a single 5d SCFT are described by different gauge theories, or equivalently that the SCFT points in parameter space of two gauge theories coincide. The pairs of dual theories that we study are realized by brane webs in type IIB string theory that are S-dual to each other. We focus on $SU(2)$ SQCD theories with $N_{f}le4$ flavors, which are self-dual, and on $SU(3)$ SQCD theories, which are dual to $SU(2{)}^2$ quiver theories. From string theory engineering we predict that Wilson loops are mapped to dual Wilson loops under S-duality. We confirm the predictions with exact computations of Wilson loop VEVs, which we extract from the 5d half-index in the presence of auxiliary loop operators (also known as higher qq-characters) sourced by D3 branes placed in the brane webs. A special role is played by Wilson loops in tensor products of the (anti)fundamental representation, which provide a natural basis to express the S-duality action. The exact computations also reveal the presence of additional multiplicative factors in the duality map, in the form of background Wilson loops.

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