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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Leonardo Rastelli , Xinan Zhou

We study four-point correlation functions of four generic half-BPS supermultiplets of N=4 SCFT in four dimensions. We use the two-particle Casimir of four-dimensional superconformal algebra to derive superconformal blocks which contribute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Agnese Bissi , Tomasz Lukowski

We study correlation functions of half-BPS operators in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super-Yang-Mills at strong coupling, in the classical limit where operator dimensions scale with the coupling. We focus on the two-dimensional kinematics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Benjamin Basso , Erkan Kaluç , Didina Serban

We propose a nonperturbative framework to study general correlation functions of single-trace operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at large $N$. The basic strategy is to decompose them into fundamental building…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Thiago Fleury , Shota Komatsu

Three-point functions of analytic (chiral primary) operators in N=4 Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions are calculated using the harmonic superspace formulation of this theory. In the case of the energy-momentum tensor multiplet anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 P. S. Howe , E. Sokatchev , P. C. West

We initiate a study of correlation functions of gauge-invariant operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory using the light-cone superspace formalism. Our primary aim is to develop efficient methods to compute perturbative corrections to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-26 Sudarshan Ananth , Stefano Kovacs , Sarthak Parikh

Besides solving the spectral problem of $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory, integrability also provides us with tools to compute the structure constants of the theory, most prominently through the hexagon formalism. We show that,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-20 Dennis le Plat , Torben Skrzypek

We consider heavy-heavy-light-light (HHLL) correlators in AdS/CFT, focussing on the D1D5 CFT$_2$ and the ${\cal N}= 4$ super Yang-Mills theory. Out of the lightest $1/2$-BPS operator in the spectrum, $O$, we construct a particular heavy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-18 Francesco Aprile , Stefano Giusto , Rodolfo Russo

We consider the strong coupling limit of 4-point functions of heavy operators in N=4 SYM dual to strings with no spin in AdS. We restrict our discussion for operators inserted on a line. The string computation factorizes into a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-25 J. Caetano , J. Toledo

We develop a systematic method to constrain any n-point correlation function of spinning operators in Large N Slightly Broken Higher Spin (SBHS) theories. As an illustration of the methodology, we work out the three point functions which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-26 Prabhav Jain , Sachin Jain , Bibhut Sahoo , Dhruva K. S , Aashna Zade

We continue the study of n-point correlation functions of half-BPS protected operators in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, in the limit where the positions of the adjacent operators become light-like separated. We compute the l-loop corrections…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 Burkhard Eden , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Emery Sokatchev

We give a detailed Operator Product Expansion interpretation of the results for conformal 4-point functions computed from supergravity through the AdS/CFT duality. We show that for an arbitrary scalar exchange in AdS(d+1) all the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-17 Eric D'Hoker , Samir D. Mathur , Alec Matusis , Leonardo Rastelli

The conformal partial wave analysis of four point functions of half BPS operators belonging to the SU(4) [0,p,0] representation is undertaken for p=2,3,4. Using the results of N=4 superconformal Ward identities the contributions from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 F. A. Dolan , H. Osborn

We revisit the analysis of the integrated 2-point functions of local operators with a $\frac{1}{2}$-BPS Wilson line in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. After including suitable parity-odd terms in the parametrization of the defect correlators, we are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-20 M. Billò , M. Frau , F. Galvagno , A. Lerda

In this work we construct the crossing symmetry equations for mixed correlators of two long and two BPS operators in 4D $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFTs. The analysis presented here illustrates how our general group theoretic approach to long…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Ilija Buric , Volker Schomerus , Evgeny Sobko

We compute exactly various 4-point correlation functions of shortest scalar operators in bi-scalar planar four-dimensional "fishnet" CFT. We apply the OPE to extract from these functions the exact expressions for the scaling dimensions and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Nikolay Gromov , Vladimir Kazakov , Gregory Korchemsky

We classify and compute, by means of the six-dimensional embedding formalism in twistor space, all possible three-point functions in four dimensional conformal field theories involving bosonic or fermionic operators in irreducible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-26 Emtinan Elkhidir , Denis Karateev , Marco Serone

We study integrated correlation functions of half-BPS operators in $SU(N)$ $\mathcal{N} = 4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (SYM) involving two superconformal primary operators in the stress-tensor multiplet and two identical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Francesco Aprile , Daniele Dorigoni , Rudolfs Treilis

In this dissertation we explore various aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence. As string quantization on general backgrounds with fluxes is very difficult, one often uses the duality at the level of canonical fields of supergravity and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Anton V. Ryzhov

In this paper we study surface operators in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We compute surface operator observables, such as the expectation value of surface operators, the correlation function of surface operators with local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Nadav Drukker , Jaume Gomis , Shunji Matsuura