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Level Repulsion in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-Yang-Mills via Integrability, Holography, and the Bootstrap

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-12-21 v1

Abstract

We combine supersymmetric localization with the numerical conformal bootstrap to bound the scaling dimension and OPE coefficient of the lowest-dimension operator in N=4\mathcal{N} = 4 SU(N)\text{SU}(N) super-Yang-Mills theory for a wide range of NN and Yang-Mills couplings gYMg_\text{YM}. We find that our bounds are approximately saturated by weak coupling results at small gYMg_\text{YM}. Furthermore, at large NN our bounds interpolate between integrability results for the Konishi operator at small gYMg_\text{YM} and strong-coupling results, including the first few stringy corrections, for the lowest-dimension double-trace operator at large gYMg_\text{YM}. In particular, our scaling dimension bounds describe the level splitting between the single- and double-trace operators at intermediate coupling.

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@article{arxiv.2312.12576,
  title  = {Level Repulsion in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-Yang-Mills via Integrability, Holography, and the Bootstrap},
  author = {Shai M. Chester and Ross Dempsey and Silviu S. Pufu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.12576},
  year   = {2023}
}

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42 pages, 13 figures