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In this paper, we investigate the 1/4 BPS Wilson-’t Hooft loops in \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We use the bulk D3-brane solutions with both electric and magnetic charges on its world-volume to describe some of 1/4 BPS Wilson-’t Hooft loops. The D3-brane supersymmetric solutions are derived form requiring κ-symmetry. We find the two consistent constraints for Killing spinors and calculate the conserved charges of straight 1/4 BPS Wilson-’t Hooft loops and expectation values of circular 1/4 BPS Wilson-’t Hooft loops separately.
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Liu, CY., Qin, L. On some 1/4 BPS Wilson-’t Hooft loops. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 102 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2015)102
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