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Handling Handles: Nonplanar Integrability in $\mathcal{N}=4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-06-05 v2

Abstract

We propose an integrability setup for the computation of correlation functions of gauge-invariant operators in N=4\mathcal{N}=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at higher orders in the large NcN_{\text{c}} genus expansion and at any order in the 't Hooft coupling gYM2Ncg_{\text{YM}}^2N_{\text{c}}. In this multi-step proposal, one polygonizes the string worldsheet in all possible ways, hexagonalizes all resulting polygons, and sprinkles mirror particles over all hexagon junctions to obtain the full correlator. We test our integrability-based conjecture against a non-planar four-point correlator of large half-BPS operators at one and two loops.

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@article{arxiv.1711.05326,
  title  = {Handling Handles: Nonplanar Integrability in $\mathcal{N}=4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory},
  author = {Till Bargheer and Joao Caetano and Thiago Fleury and Shota Komatsu and Pedro Vieira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.05326},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures; v2: updated references, typos, minor improvements (published version)