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Monopole operators in Chern-Simons theories with charged matter have been studied using the state-operator map in CFTs, as states on ℝ × S2 with background magnetic flux on S2. Gauge invariance requires a dressing with matter modes which provides non-zero spin to the monopoles. In this note we propose a description of the monopole operators directly on ℝ3, as a singular behavior of the gauge and matter fields in the vicinity of the insertion point, with a dressing. We study abelian theories with a charged boson or a charged fermion. We extend the discussion to abelian supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter theories and describe the BPS monopoles, which have spin and preserve a single supercharge. We match our results against the prediction from the superconformal index.
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Assel, B. Note on monopole operators in Chern-Simons-matter theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 74 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2019)074
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