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A three-loop test of the dilatation operator in N=4 SYM

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-05 v3

Abstract

We compute the three-loop anomalous dimension of the BMN operators with charges J=0 (the Konishi multiplet) and J=1 in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We employ a method which effectively reduces the calculation to two loops. Instead of using the superconformal primary states, we consider the ratio of the two-point functions of suitable descendants of the corresponding multiplets. Our results unambiguously select the form of the N=4 SYM dilatation operator which is compatible with BMN scaling. Thus, we provide evidence for BMN scaling at three loops.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0409009,
  title  = {A three-loop test of the dilatation operator in N=4 SYM},
  author = {B. Eden and C. Jarczak and E. Sokatchev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0409009},
  year   = {2010}
}

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38 pages LaTeX, 4 figures, references added

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