Perturbative bootstrap of the Wilson-line defect CFT: Multipoint correlators
Abstract
We study the defect CFT associated with the half-BPS Wilson line in Super Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions. Using a perturbative bootstrap approach, we derive new analytical results for multipoint correlators of protected defect operators at large and weak coupling. At next-to-next-to-leading order, we demonstrate that the simplest five- and six-point functions are fully determined by non-perturbative constraints -- which include superconformal symmetry, crossing symmetry, and the pinching of operators to lower-point functions -- as well as by a single integral, known as the train track integral. Additionally, we present new analytical results for the four-point functions and .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2410.08271,
title = {Perturbative bootstrap of the Wilson-line defect CFT: Multipoint correlators},
author = {Daniele Artico and Julien Barrat and Giulia Peveri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.08271},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
51 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, 1 ancillary notebook. v3 matches the JHEP version and includes fixing typos and adjusted conventions