Bootstrapping $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills on the conformal manifold
Abstract
We combine supersymmetric localization results with numerical bootstrap techniques to compute upper bounds on the low-lying CFT data of super-Yang-Mills theory as a function of the complexified gauge coupling . 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 , we focus on and 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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Cite
@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