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Coulomb Branch and Integrability

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-11-19 v2

Abstract

We study one-point functions of non-BPS single-trace operators on the Coulomb branch of planar N=4\mathcal{N}=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Holography relates them to overlaps between on-shell closed string states and a boundary state describing a probe D3-brane in AdS5×S5AdS_5\times S^{5}. Assuming that the D-brane preserves integrability, we formulate and solve integrable bootstrap equations satisfied by the boundary state at finite 't Hooft coupling. This leads to a closed-form determinant expression for one-point functions at finite coupling, valid for sufficiently long operators. We test the result against direct field theory computations at tree level and one loop, finding perfect agreement.

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@article{arxiv.2506.07222,
  title  = {Coulomb Branch and Integrability},
  author = {Frank Coronado and Shota Komatsu and Konstantin Zarembo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.07222},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

35 pages + appendices, 13 figures, v2 Explicit evaluation of self-energy diagrams added

R2 v1 2026-07-01T03:05:50.534Z