Properties of chiral Wilson loops

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2004/01/065zbMATH Open1243.81114arXivhep-th/0309118OpenAlexW2049149273MaRDI QIDQ438247FDOQ438247

Authors: Zachary Guralnik, B. Kulik 

Publication date: 30 July 2012

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

Abstract: We study a class of Wilson Loops in N =4, D=4 Yang-Mills theory belonging to the chiral ring of a N=2, d=1 subalgebra. We show that the expectation value of these loops is independent of their shape. Using properties of the chiral ring, we also show that the expectation value is identically 1. We find the same result for chiral loops in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in three, five and six dimensions. In seven dimensions, a generalized Konishi anomaly gives an equation for chiral loops which closely resembles the loop equations of the three dimensional Chern-Simons theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0309118

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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