3 papers
hep-th2025
Wilson Loops and Spherical Branes
Davide Astesiano, Pieter Bomans, Fridrik Freyr Gautason +2
We study 1/2-BPS Wilson loop operators in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on -dimensional spheres. Their vacuum expectation values can be computed at large throug…
hep-th2025
Holographic Generalised Gukov-Witten Defects
Pieter Bomans, Lorenzo Tranchedone
Spindle and disc solutions have received significant attention in recent literature. However, it is not entirely clear what these supergravity solutions represent in the dual SCFT.…
hep-th2024
Spherical Branes and the BMN Matrix Quantum Mechanics
Nikolay Bobev, Pieter Bomans, Fridrik Freyr Gautason
We study the maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on using supersymmetric localisation and holography. We argue that the analytic continuation in dimension to yie…