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Bubbling Surface Operators And S-Duality

Authors :
Gomis, Jaume
Matsuura, Shunji
Source :
JHEP 0706:025,2007
Publication Year :
2007

Abstract

We construct smooth asymptotically AdS_5xS^5 solutions of Type IIB supergravity corresponding to all the half-BPS surface operators in N=4 SYM. All the parameters labeling a half-BPS surface operator are identified in the corresponding bubbling geometry. We use the supergravity description of surface operators to study the action of the SL(2,Z) duality group of N=4 SYM on the parameters of the surface operator, and find that it coincides with the recent proposal by Gukov and Witten in the framework of the gauge theory approach to the geometrical Langlands with ramification. We also show that whenever a bubbling geometry becomes singular that the path integral description of the corresponding surface operator also becomes singular.<br />Comment: 26 pages, harvmac; minor typos corrected and reference added, typos fixed

Subjects

Subjects :
High Energy Physics - Theory

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
JHEP 0706:025,2007
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.0704.1657
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/025