Abstract
Abstract
We study Wilson surface defects in 6d
$$ \mathcal{N}=\left(2,0\right) $$
N
=
2
0
superconformal field theories, engineered by semi-infinite M2-branes intersecting M5-branes. Two independent approaches are used to obtain the Wilson surface observables on the T
2 inside Ω-deformed R
4 × T
2. One approach is to compute 5d
$$ \mathcal{N}={1}^{*} $$
N
=
1
*
instanton partition functions in the presence of Wilson lines, where the instanton corrections capture the 6d Kaluza-Klein momentum modes. The other approach is to study the elliptic genera of 2d
$$ \mathcal{N}=\left(0,4\right) $$
N
=
0
4
gauge theories, which we propose as describing 6d self-dual strings in the presence of Wilson surface defects. We make a detailed comparison between these two independent computations, which precisely agree for Wilson surfaces in minuscule representations; for non-minuscule representations instead we only find partial agreement, due to technical problems which we comment about.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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