3 papers
hep-th2025
Framed defects in ABJ(M)
Marco S. Bianchi, Luigi Castiglioni, Silvia Penati +2
We investigate the role of framing in a family of 1/24 BPS Wilson loops in ABJ(M) theory, which define flows between 1/6 BPS and the 1/2 BPS superconformal fixed points. We analyze…
hep-th2025
Conformal defects and RG flows in ABJM
Luigi Castiglioni, Silvia Penati, Marcia Tenser +1
Defects play a central role in many contexts, from condensed matter to quantum gravity. The situations in which the bulk theory is conformal and the defect inherits part of this sy…
hep-th2024
Framing fermionic Wilson loops in ABJ(M)
Marco S. Bianchi, Luigi Castiglioni, Silvia Penati +2
Framing plays a central role in the evaluation of Wilson loops in theories with Chern-Simons actions. In pure Chern-Simons theory, it guarantees topological invariance, while in th…