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Bootstrapping $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills on the conformal manifold

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-10-11 v3

Abstract

We combine supersymmetric localization results with numerical bootstrap techniques to compute upper bounds on the low-lying CFT data of N=4{\cal N} = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory as a function of the complexified gauge coupling τ\tau. In particular, from the stress tensor multiplet four-point function, we extract the scaling dimension of the lowest-lying unprotected scalar operator and its OPE coefficient. While our method can be applied in principle to any gauge group GG, we focus on G=SU(2)G = SU(2) and SU(3)SU(3) for simplicity. At weak coupling, the upper bounds we find are very close to the corresponding four-loop results. We also give preliminary evidence that these upper bounds become small islands under reasonable assumptions.

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@article{arxiv.2111.07989,
  title  = {Bootstrapping $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills on the conformal manifold},
  author = {Shai M. Chester and Ross Dempsey and Silviu S. Pufu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.07989},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

31 pages plus appendices, 13 figures, v3 expanded discussion of integration region