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Giant graviton integrated correlators at finite coupling and all orders in $1/N$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-03-23 v1

Abstract

We study the giant graviton integrated correlator in SU(N)(N) N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Yang-Mills at finite complexified coupling τ\tau. Despite the formidable complexity arising from the heavy nature of the operators considered, the large-NN expansion simplifies dramatically and exhibits manifest modular invariance. At each order in 1/N1/N, the expansion coefficients are linear combinations of non-holomorphic Eisenstein series thus capturing the full spectrum of perturbative and non-perturbative effects in the Yang-Mills coupling. Furthermore, we find additional contributions which are modular functions exponentially suppressed in NN. In the 't Hooft limit, this yields an all-orders result in the 1/N1/N expansion at arbitrary coupling λ\lambda, extending beyond prior results of leading orders. For the U(N)(N) theory, we obtain a closed-form expression valid for all NN and τ\tau, and show that the coupling-dependent sector of the large-NN expansion is universal between SU(N)(N) and U(N)(N) to all orders. Crucially, we exploit the integrated correlator constraints and determine the giant graviton correlator itself to two-loop order at finite NN, previously only accessible in the planar limit.

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@article{arxiv.2603.20083,
  title  = {Giant graviton integrated correlators at finite coupling and all orders in $1/N$},
  author = {Augustus Brown and Daniele Dorigoni and Congkao Wen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.20083},
  year   = {2026}
}

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5 pages + appendices