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Multipoint correlators on the supersymmetric Wilson line defect CFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-01-24 v4

Abstract

We study multipoint correlators of protected scalars on the Maldacena-Wilson line in N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM. Working at weak coupling in the planar limit, we derive an explicit recursion relation that captures next-to-leading order correlators with an arbitrary number of insertions of the fundamental scalar field. By pinching fundamental scalars together, we can build composite protected operators with higher values of the R-charge. Our result then encompasses arbitrary nn-point correlators of protected operators with arbitrary weight. As a demonstration of our method, we give explicit formulae for correlators with up to six points. Using these results we observe that all our correlators are annihilated by a special class of differential operators. We conjecture that these differential operators are non-perturbative constraints and can be considered a multipoint extension of the superconformal Ward identities satisfied by four-point functions.

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@article{arxiv.2112.10780,
  title  = {Multipoint correlators on the supersymmetric Wilson line defect CFT},
  author = {Julien Barrat and Pedro Liendo and Giulia Peveri and Jan Plefka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.10780},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

31 pages, ancillary Mathematica notebook; v4: correction of some integral identities in appendix B

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