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Bootstrapping $\mathcal{N}=4$ sYM correlators using integrability

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-03-01 v1

Abstract

How much spectral information is needed to determine the correlation functions of a conformal theory? We study this question in the context of planar supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, where integrability techniques accurately determine the single-trace spectrum at finite 't Hooft coupling. Corresponding OPE coefficients are constrained by dispersive sum rules, which implement crossing symmetry. Focusing on correlators of four stress-tensor multiplets, we construct combinations of sum rules which determine one-loop correlators, and we study a numerical bootstrap problem that nonperturbatively bounds planar OPE coefficients. We observe interesting cusps at the location of physical operators, and we obtain a nontrivial upper bound on the OPE coefficient of the Konishi operator outside the perturbative regime.

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@article{arxiv.2207.01615,
  title  = {Bootstrapping $\mathcal{N}=4$ sYM correlators using integrability},
  author = {Simon Caron-Huot and Frank Coronado and Anh-Khoi Trinh and Zahra Zahraee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.01615},
  year   = {2023}
}

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33 pages+ appendices, 15 figures

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