Remote Nordic HET seminar: Itamar Yaakov

Speaker: Itamar Yaakov

Title: Latitude Wilson loops in ABJM: localization and duality

Abstract: I will describe aspects of BPS loop operators - the latitude Wilson loops - which appear in 3d N=4 Chern-Simons-Matter (CSM) theories like the ABJM model. These are extended operators, preserving just 2 supercharges, that have interesting applications in the physics of CSM theories and in their holographic duals. I will describe their field theory dual - a novel type of mixed Wilson-vortex loop realized by a supersymmetric quantum mechanics - exact results for their expectation values using supersymmetric localization, and the connection to the 1d topological algebra of Pufu et al.