Holography of BPS surface operators

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Published 4 February 2009 • Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Eunkyung Koh and Satoshi Yamaguchi JHEP02(2009)012 DOI 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/02/012

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1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea

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  1. Received 16 December 2008
  2. Accepted 14 January 2009
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Abstract

We study a class of dilatation invariant BPS surface operators in 4-dimensional Script N = 4 Super Yang-Mills theory and their holographic duals in type IIB string theory in AdS5 × S5. First we take an example of 1/4 BPS surface operator and study it in detail from the holographic point of view. The gravity dual of this surface operator is a D3-brane characterized by a holomorphic submanifold. The supersymmetry and vacuum expectation value are checked in both the gauge theory side and the gravity side. We also calculate the correlation functions with the chiral primary operators in both sides and find good agreement. Next we consider more general dilatation invariant BPS surface operators. The gravity duals of those operators are proposed.

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