An exact limit of the Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena theory

Marco S. Bianchi and Matias Leoni
Phys. Rev. D 94, 045011 – Published 23 August 2016

Abstract

We study planar Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena (ABJM) theory in a limit where one coupling is negligible compared to the other. We provide a recipe for exactly solving the expectation value of bosonic Bogomol’nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) Wilson loops on arbitrary smooth contours, or the leading divergence for cusped ones, using results from localization. As an application, we compute the exact (generalized) cusp anomalous dimension and Bremsstrahlung function and use it to determine the interpolating h-function. We finally prove a conjecture on the exact form of the dilatation operator in a closed sector, hinting at the integrability of this limit.

  • Received 17 May 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.045011

© 2016 American Physical Society

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Particles & Fields

Authors & Affiliations

Marco S. Bianchi1,* and Matias Leoni2,†

  • 1Centre for Research in String Theory, School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom
  • 2Physics Department, FCEyN-UBA & IFIBA-CONICET Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón I, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • *m.s.bianchi@qmul.ac.uk
  • leoni@df.uba.ar

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Vol. 94, Iss. 4 — 15 August 2016

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