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Vortex loop operators and quantum M2-branes

by Nadav Drukker, Omar Shahpo

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Omar Shahpo
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Preprint Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.17091v1  (pdf)
Date accepted: 2024-06-03
Date submitted: 2024-02-12 12:18
Submitted by: Shahpo, Omar
Submitted to: SciPost Physics
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Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • High-Energy Physics - Theory
Approach: Theoretical

Abstract

We study M2-branes in $AdS_4\times S^7/{\mathbb Z}_k$ dual to 1/2 and 1/3 BPS vortex loop operators in ABJM theory and compute their one-loop correction beyond the classical M2-brane action. The correction depends only on the parity of $k$ and is independent of all continues parameters in the definition of the vortex loops. The result for odd $k$ agrees with the answers for the 1/2 BPS Wilson loop in the $k=1$ theory and for even $k$ with the one in the $k = 2$ theory. Combining with the classical part, we find that the natural expansion parameter seems to be $1/\sqrt{kN}$ rather than $1/\sqrt{N}$. This provides a further setting where semiclassical quantisation can be applied to M2-branes and produces new results inaccessible by other methods.

Published as SciPost Phys. 17, 016 (2024)


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Report #2 by Anonymous (Referee 1) on 2024-5-25 (Invited Report)

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The authors study the one-loop corrections to the classical M2-brane action of configurations associated with BPS vortex loops opeators in AdS4 X S7/Z_k.
The paper is very short and direct to the point, the computation of fluctuations around such classical configurations. The result is then compared with the Wilson loop ones. There are some expectations for the form of the result but a QFT computation is still lacking. The extreme compactness of the paper is not necessarily a weakness and I found it refreshing and easy to read. An introduction, dense with information, describes the state of the art. This a sound and useful technical computation which deserves to be published.

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Report #1 by Anonymous (Referee 2) on 2024-3-12 (Invited Report)

  • Cite as: Anonymous, Report on arXiv:2312.17091v1, delivered 2024-03-12, doi: 10.21468/SciPost.Report.8695

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1) interesting topic
2) concisely but clearly written
3) detailed computations, which can be easily be reproduced

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This paper tackles a general, important problem in holography, which is the computation of one-loop corrections of holographic duals of certain non-local operators. In this particular case, the gauge theory operators are 1/2 BPS and 1/3 BPS vortex loops in ABJM theory and their duals are M2 branes in AdS4xS7. The authors manage to show that the quadratic fluctuations around the classical M2 brane action reduce, for these operators, to previously known cases, whose results can then be recycled. This provides a new prediction for a (at the moment missing) localization computation, which would be worthwhile to attempt to try to match eq. (1.5), the main result of this paper.

  • validity: high
  • significance: high
  • originality: good
  • clarity: high
  • formatting: excellent
  • grammar: excellent

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