Energy-Energy Correlator from the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro Amplitude
Abstract
We establish a precise formula relating the world-sheet integral of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude to the energy-energy correlator (EEC) in super Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling. This mapping allows us to evaluate the coefficients of the AdS curvature expansion of the EEC in terms of the world-sheet integral over a unit disk. To illustrate this idea, we explicitly compute the flat-space contribution and the first curvature correction to the EEC. Our results provide a rigorous description of the stringy energy flow, demonstrating how world-sheet correlators imprint themselves on collider observables and offering a potential template for effective string descriptions of energy correlators in general gauge theories.
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@article{arxiv.2601.05312,
title = {Energy-Energy Correlator from the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro Amplitude},
author = {Lecheng Ren and Bo Wang and Congkao Wen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.05312},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 appendices, v2: typos corrected, v3: published version