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Supersymmetric Wilson loops in N=4 SYM and pure spinors
Anatoly Dymarsky, Vasily Pestun
We study supersymmetric Wilson loop operators in four-dimensional N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. We show that the contour of a supersymmetric Wilson loop is either an orbit of some c…
The 1/2 BPS 't Hooft loops in N=4 SYM as instantons in 2d Yang-Mills
Simone Giombi, Vasily Pestun
We extend the recent conjecture on the relation between a certain 1/8 BPS subsector of 4d N=4 SYM on S^2 and 2d Yang-Mills theory by turning on circular 1/2 BPS 't Hooft operators…
Notes on supersymmetric Wilson loops on a two-sphere
Simone Giombi, Vasily Pestun, Riccardo Ricci
We study a recently discovered family of 1/8-BPS supersymmetric Wilson loops in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and their string theory duals. The operators are defined for arbitrary c…
Correlators of local operators and 1/8 BPS Wilson loops on S^2 from 2d YM and matrix models
Simone Giombi, Vasily Pestun
We propose that, in N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory, correlation functions of certain 1/8 BPS Wilson loops and local operators inserted on a S^2 in space-time may be computed in terms…
Localization of the four-dimensional N=4 SYM to a two-sphere and 1/8 BPS Wilson loops
Vasily Pestun
We localize the four-dimensional N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on a four-sphere to the two-dimensional constrained Hitchin/Higgs-Yang-Mills (cHYM) theory on a two-sphere S^2. We show…