't Hooft Operators in the Boundary
Abstract: We consider a topologically twisted maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on a four-manifold of the form $V = W \times {\mathbb R}_+$. 't Hooft disorder operators localized in the boundary component at finite distance of $V$ are relevant for the study of knot theory on the three-manifold $W$, and have recently been constructed for a gauge group of rank one. We extend this construction to an arbitrary gauge group $G$. For certain values of the magnetic charge of the 't Hooft operator, the solutions are obtained by embedding the rank one solutions in $G$ and can be given in closed form.
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