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Bootstrapping mixed correlators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-06-02 v1

Abstract

We perform a numerical bootstrap study of the mixed correlator system containing the half-BPS operators of dimension two and three in N=4\mathcal N = 4 Super Yang-Mills. This setup improves on previous works in the literature that only considered single correlators of one or the other operator. We obtain upper bounds on the leading twist in a given representation of the R-symmetry by imposing gaps on the twist of all operators rather than the dimension of a single one. As a result we find a tension between the large NN supergravity predictions and the numerical finite NN results already at N100N\sim 100. A few possible solutions are discussed: the extremal spectrum suggests that at large but finite NN, in addition to the double trace operators, there exists a second tower of states with smaller dimension. We also obtain new bounds on the dimension of operators which were not accessible with a single correlator setup. Finally we consider bounds on the OPE coefficients of various operators. The results obtained for the OPE coefficient of the lightest scalar singlet show evidences of a two dimensional conformal manifold.

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@article{arxiv.2010.15126,
  title  = {Bootstrapping mixed correlators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills},
  author = {Agnese Bissi and Andrea Manenti and Alessandro Vichi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15126},
  year   = {2021}
}

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40 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables

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