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The double-trace spectrum of N=4 SYM at strong coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-12-26 v2

Abstract

The spectrum of IIB supergravity on AdS5×S5{}_5 \times S^5 contains a number of bound states described by long double-trace multiplets in N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Yang-Mills theory at large 't Hooft coupling. At large NN these states are degenerate and to obtain their anomalous dimensions as expansions in 1N2\tfrac{1}{N^2} one has to solve a mixing problem. We conjecture a formula for the leading anomalous dimensions of all long double-trace operators which exhibits a large residual degeneracy whose structure we describe. Our formula can be related to conformal Casimir operators which arise in the structure of leading discontinuities of supergravity loop corrections to four-point correlators of half-BPS operators.

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@article{arxiv.1802.06889,
  title  = {The double-trace spectrum of N=4 SYM at strong coupling},
  author = {F. Aprile and J. M. Drummond and P. Heslop and H. Paul},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.06889},
  year   = {2018}
}

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5 pages; References added, formatting improved