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Cut-and-join operators and N=4 super Yang-Mills

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-05-27 v3

Abstract

We show which multi-trace structures are compatible with the symmetrisation of local operators in \cN=4 super Yang-Mills when they are organised into representations of the global symmetry group. Cut-and-join operators give the non-planar expansion of correlation functions of these operators in the free theory. Using these techniques we find the 1/N corrections to the quarter-BPS operators which remain protected at weak coupling. We also present a new way of counting these chiral ring operators using the Weyl group S_N.

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@article{arxiv.1002.2099,
  title  = {Cut-and-join operators and N=4 super Yang-Mills},
  author = {T. W. Brown},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.2099},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

44 pages, 3 figures; minor clarifications and typos fixed

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