N=3 harmonic supersymmetric Wilson loop
Journal
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
97
Journal Issue
12
Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Jain, D.
Abstract
We study supersymmetric Wilson loops in d=3, N=3 harmonic superspace, leading to a construction of a supersymmetrized generalization of the 13-BPS Wilson loop for N=3 gauge theories. This also includes the generalization of the 16-BPS loop for ABJM theory. We perform a "one-loop" computation of the vacuum expectation value of this operator directly in superspace and compare with the known N=2 localization results at large N. This comparison also lets us identify certain fermionic contributions that do not receive any subleading corrections.
Type
journal article