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Unmixing Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-04-04 v2

Abstract

We examine the double-trace spectrum of N=4\mathcal{N} = 4 super Yang-Mills theory in the supergravity limit. At large NN double-trace operators exhibit degeneracy. By considering free-field and tree-level supergravity contributions to four-point functions of half-BPS operators we resolve the degeneracy for a large family of double-trace operators. The mixing problem reveals a surprisingly simple structure which allows us to obtain their three-point functions at leading order in the large NN expansion as well as their leading anomalous dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.1706.08456,
  title  = {Unmixing Supergravity},
  author = {F. Aprile and J. M. Drummond and P. Heslop and H. Paul},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.08456},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

46 pages, 1 figure. Typos fixed, journal version

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