Surface defects, the superconformal index and q-deformed Yang-Mills

Alday, Luis F.; Bullimore, Mathew; Fluder, Martin; Hollands, Lotte

Abstract

Recently a prescription to compute the four-dimensional N = 2 superconformal index in the presence of certain BPS surface defects has been given. These surface defects are labelled by symmetric representations of SU(N). In the present paper we give a prescription to compute the superconformal index in the presence of surface defects labelled by arbitrary representations of SU(N). Furthermore, we extend the dictionary between the N =2superconformalSchur-indexandcorrelatorsofq-deformedYang-Millstoincorporate such surface defects.

Citation

Alday, L. F., Bullimore, M., Fluder, M., & Hollands, L. (2013). Surface defects, the superconformal index and q-deformed Yang-Mills. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013(10), Article 018. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10%282013%29018

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 31, 2013
• Online Publication Date: Oct 2, 2013
• Publication Date: Oct 2, 2013
• Deposit Date: Jun 7, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 2, 2018
• Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Print ISSN: 1126-6708
• Publisher: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2013
• Issue: 10
• Article Number: 018
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10%282013%29018