Quantum 't Hooft operators and S-duality in N=4 super Yang-Mills

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2009.V13.N6.A9zbMATH Open1200.81109arXiv0904.4486MaRDI QIDQ601705FDOQ601705

Jaume Gomis, Takuya Okuda, Diego Trancanelli

Publication date: 29 October 2010

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide a quantum path integral definition of an 't Hooft loop operator, which inserts a pointlike monopole in a four dimensional gauge theory. We explicitly compute the expectation value of the circular 't Hooft operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills with arbitrary gauge group G up to next to leading order in perturbation theory. We also compute in the strong coupling expansion the expectation value of the circular Wilson loop operators. The result of the computation of an 't Hooft loop operator in the weak coupling expansion exactly reproduces the strong coupling result of the conjectured dual Wilson loop operator under the action of S-duality. This paper demonstrates - for the first time - that correlation functions in N=4 super Yang-Mills admit the action of S-duality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.4486

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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