Universal sectors in superconformal defects
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: We study universal features of defect correlation functions in supersymmetric defect CFTs, focusing on four-point functions of the displacement supermultiplet. By perturbing the leading-order correlators at strong coupling, we identify constraints on the operators exchanged at next-to-leading order. We then discuss the conditions under which correlation functions of identical superdisplacement components receive contributions only from multiparticle operators built from the same components. This leads to the equivalence between four-point functions of defect insertions across different theories, establishing universality. We confirm these features in examples including the 1 / 2 Bogomol’nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) line in N = 4 super-Yang-Mills, N = 2 gauge theories and in the N = 6 Chern–Simons–matter theory of Aharony–Bergman–Jafferis–Maldacena (ABJM), up to the first subleading order in the strong-coupling expansion. We then analyze the 1 / 2 BPS Wilson line in 3d N = 2 Chern-Simons-matter theories, identifying the preserved defect algebra and the superdisplacement multiplet. Exploiting universality, we find the superdisplacement four-point functions of the defect operators and we extract the conformal data up to the first subleading order. Finally, we comment on the 1 / 3 BPS Wilson line in ABJM, providing initial results for the analysis at strong coupling.
DOI: 10.1103/6rvb-h1fr
Author: Riccardo Giordana Pozzi
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Bulgarian National Science Fund
OpenAlex ID: W4415317718