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Correlation functions of determinant operators in conformal fishnet theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-06-17 v2

Abstract

We consider scalar local operators of the determinant type in the conformal ``fishnet'' theory that arises as a limit of gamma-deformed N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Yang-Mills theory. We generalise a field-theory approach to expand their correlation functions to arbitrary order in the small coupling constants and apply it to the bi-scalar reduction of the model. We explicitly analyse the two-point functions of determinants, as well as of certain deformations with the insertion of scalar fields, and describe the Feynman-graph structure of three- and four-point correlators with single-trace operators. These display the topology of globe and spiral graphs, which are known to renormalise single-trace operators, but with ``alternating'' boundary conditions. In the appendix material we further investigate a four-point function of two determinants and the shortest bi-local single trace. We resum the diagrams by the Bethe-Salpeter method and comment on the exchanged OPE states.

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@article{arxiv.2110.09458,
  title  = {Correlation functions of determinant operators in conformal fishnet theory},
  author = {Omar Shahpo and Edoardo Vescovi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.09458},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

40 pages, 6 figures; added footnotes 2, 4, 11 and 16, expanded on calculations in Section 3 and holography in Conclusion, minor comments; it matches published version

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