Loop and surface operators in N=2 gauge theory and Liouville modular geometry Export

@article{citeulike:5738676, abstract = {Recently, a duality between Liouville theory and four dimensional N=2 gauge theory has been uncovered by some of the authors. We consider the role of extended objects in gauge theory, surface operators and line operators, under this correspondence. We map such objects to specific operators in Liouville theory. We employ this connection to compute the expectation value of general supersymmetric 't Hooft-Wilson line operators in a variety of N=2 gauge theories.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Alday, Luis F. and Gaiotto, Davide and Gukov, Sergei and Tachikawa, Yuji and Verlinde, Herman}, citeulike-article-id = {5738676}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0945}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.0945}, day = {8}, eprint = {0909.0945}, keywords = {duality, liouville, quiver-gauge-theory, wilson-loops}, month = {Sep}, posted-at = {2009-09-08 03:20:20}, priority = {2}, title = {Loop and surface operators in N=2 gauge theory and Liouville modular geometry}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0945}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5738676 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5738676 N2 - Recently, a duality between Liouville theory and four dimensional N=2 gauge theory has been uncovered by some of the authors. We consider the role of extended objects in gauge theory, surface operators and line operators, under this correspondence. We map such objects to specific operators in Liouville theory. We employ this connection to compute the expectation value of general supersymmetric 't Hooft-Wilson line operators in a variety of N=2 gauge theories. TI - Loop and surface operators in N=2 gauge theory and Liouville modular geometry KW - duality KW - liouville KW - quiver-gauge-theory KW - wilson-loops AU - Alday, Luis AU - Gaiotto, Davide AU - Gukov, Sergei AU - Tachikawa, Yuji AU - Verlinde, Herman PY - 2009/Sep/08/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0945 ER -