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Integrated correlators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM beyond localisation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-02-20 v2

Abstract

We study integrated correlators of four superconformal primaries Op\mathcal{O}_{p} with arbitrary charges pp in N=4\mathcal{N}{=}4 super Yang-Mills theory (SYM). The O2O2OpOp \langle \mathcal{O}_{2} \mathcal{O}_{2} \mathcal{O}_{p} \mathcal{O}_{p} \rangle integrated correlators can be computed by supersymmetric localisation, whereas correlators with more general charges are currently not accessible from this method and in general contain complicated multi-zeta values. Nevertheless we observe that if one sums over the contributions from all different channels in a given correlator, then all the multi-zeta values (and products of zeta's) cancel leaving only ζ(2+1)\zeta(2\ell{+}1) at \ell-loops. We then propose an exact expression of such integrated correlators in the planar limit, valid for arbitrary 't Hooft coupling. The expression matches with the known exact localisation-based results for specific charges, as well as with all existing perturbative and strong-coupling results in the literature for more general charges. As an application, our result is used to determine certain 77-loop Feynman integral periods and fix previously unknown coefficients in the correlators at strong coupling.

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@article{arxiv.2308.07219,
  title  = {Integrated correlators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM beyond localisation},
  author = {Augustus Brown and Paul Heslop and Congkao Wen and Haitian Xie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.07219},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

5 pages plus 1 appendix; v2: matching with the Octagon to all orders is added; version to be published in PRL

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