TY - JOUR
T1 - Classifying BPS bosonic Wilson loops in 3d N = 4 Chern-Simons-matter theories
AU - Drukker, Nadav
AU - Kong, Ziwen
AU - Probst, Malte
AU - Tenser, Marcia
AU - Trancanelli, Diego
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/11/29
Y1 - 2022/11/29
N2 - We study the possible BPS Wilson loops in three-dimensional N = 4 Chern-Simons-matter theory which involve only the gauge field and bilinears of the scalars. Previously known examples are the analogues of the Gaiotto-Yin loops preserving four supercharges and “latitude” loops preserving two. We carry out a careful classification and find, in addition, loops preserving three supercharges, further inequivalent classes of loops preserving two supercharges and loops preserving a single supercharge. For each of the classes of loops, we present a representative example and analyse their full orbit under the broken symmetries.
AB - We study the possible BPS Wilson loops in three-dimensional N = 4 Chern-Simons-matter theory which involve only the gauge field and bilinears of the scalars. Previously known examples are the analogues of the Gaiotto-Yin loops preserving four supercharges and “latitude” loops preserving two. We carry out a careful classification and find, in addition, loops preserving three supercharges, further inequivalent classes of loops preserving two supercharges and loops preserving a single supercharge. For each of the classes of loops, we present a representative example and analyse their full orbit under the broken symmetries.
KW - Chern-Simons Theories
KW - Supersymmetric Gauge Theory
KW - Wilson, ’t Hooft and Polyakov loops
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85142884207&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP11(2022)163
DO - 10.1007/JHEP11(2022)163
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85142884207
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2022
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 11
M1 - 163
ER -