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HHL correlators, orbit averaging and form factors

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-19 v2

Abstract

We argue that the conventional method to calculate the OPE coefficients in the strong coupling limit for heavy-heavy-light operators in the N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory has to be modified by integrating the light vertex operator not only over a single string worldsheet but also over the moduli space of classical solutions corresponding to the heavy states. This reflects the fact that we are primarily interested in energy eigenstates and not coherent states. We tested our prescription for the BMN vacuum correlator, for folded strings on S5S^5 and for two-particle states. Our prescription for two-particle states with the dilaton leads to a volume dependence which matches exactly to the structure of finite volume diagonal formfactors. As the volume depence does not rely on the particular light operator we conjecture that symmetric OPE coefficients can be described for any coupling by finite volume diagonal form factors.

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@article{arxiv.1404.4556,
  title  = {HHL correlators, orbit averaging and form factors},
  author = {Zoltan Bajnok and Romuald A. Janik and Andrzej Wereszczynski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.4556},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

32 pages, 1 figure; v2: small corrections including signs, references added

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