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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 M. Billo , M. Frau , A. Lerda , A. Pini , P. Vallarino

We study three point functions of half BPS operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory focusing on correltors of two of the operators with dimension of order $\Delta\sim N^2$ and a light single trace operator. These describe vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-12 Adolfo Holguin

We present a construction of the integrand of the correlation function of four stress-tensor multiplets in N=4 SYM at weak coupling. It does not rely on Feynman diagrams and makes use of the recently discovered symmetry of the integrand…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Burkhard Eden , Paul Heslop , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Emery Sokatchev

We study five-point correlation functions of scalar operators in d-dimensional conformal field theories. We develop a new approach to computing the five-point conformal blocks for exchanged primary operators of arbitrary spin by introducing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-04 David Poland , Valentina Prilepina , Petar Tadić

We use the method of asymptotic expansions to study the OPE limit of a four-point function of protected operators in N=4 SYM. We use a new method for evaluating the resulting propagator-type integrals and then extract the OPE coefficient…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 Alessandro Georgoudis , Vasco Goncalves , Raul Pereira

We compute the one-loop four-point function in {\cal N}=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group U(N). We perform the calculation in {\cal N}=1 superspace using the background field method and obtain the complete off-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Alberto Santambrogio , Daniela Zanon

We give the derivation of the previously announced analytic expression for the correlation function of three heavy non-BPS operators in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory at weak coupling. The three operators belong to three different su(2)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Ivan Kostov

In this thesis, we study the integrands of a special four-point correlation function formed of protected half-BPS operators and scattering amplitudes in planar supersymmetric $\mathcal{N}=4$ Yang-Mills. We use the `soft-collinear bootstrap'…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-07 Vuong-Viet Tran

We discuss the properties of quarter-BPS local operators in four dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory using the formalism of holomorphic twists. We study loop corrections both to the space of local operators and to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Kasia Budzik , Davide Gaiotto , Justin Kulp , Brian R. Williams , Jingxiang Wu , Matthew Yu

We consider correlation functions of two maximal giant gravitons and two light $\frac{1}{2}$-BPS operators in 4d $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. Viewed as two-point correlators in the presence of a zero dimensional defect, they can be completely fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-12 Junding Chen , Yunfeng Jiang , Xinan Zhou

We study two- and three-point correlation functions of chiral primary half-BPS operators in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal circular, cyclic symmetric quiver theories. Using supersymmetric localization, these functions can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-30 Gregory P. Korchemsky , Alessandro Testa

We present a simple and consistent way to compute correlation functions in interacting theories with non-trivial phase diagram. As an example we show how to consistently compute the four-point function in three dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-13 Alessandro Codello , Alberto Tonero

We derive the explicit expression for the four-point correlation function of stress-energy tensors in four-dimensional N=4 superconformal theory. We show that it has a remarkably simple and suggestive form allowing us to predict a large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

Using superspace techniques, we compute the mixed OPE between an ${\mathcal N}=2$ stress-tensor multiplet, a chiral multiplet and a flavor current multiplet. We perform a detailed analysis of the three-point function between two of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-16 Israel A. Ramírez

In this long overdue second installment, we continue to develop the conformal bootstrap program for ${\mathcal N}=4$ superconformal field theories in four dimensions via an analysis of the correlation function of four stress-tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 Christopher Beem , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

In this work, we study the $\frac{1}{8}$-BPS heavy-heavy-light-light correlators in the D1D5 CFT and its holographic dual. On the field theory side, we compute the fermionic four-point correlators at the free orbifold point. On the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Jia Tian , Jue Hou , Bin Chen

We initiate an exploration of the conformal bootstrap for $n>4$ point correlation functions. Here we bootstrap correlation functions of the lightest scalar gauge invariant operators in planar non-abelian conformal gauge theories as their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Carlos Bercini , Vasco Gonçalves , Pedro Vieira

We compute the correlation function between a circular half-BPS Wilson loop (or straight Wilson line) and a local operator in ABJM theory utilizing its M-theory description. The local operator can be a $1/3$-BPS single-trace chiral primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Xiao-Yi Zhang , Yunfeng Jiang , Jun-Bao Wu

We determine the partition function of 1/16 BPS operators in N=4 SYM at weak coupling at the one-loop level in the planar limit. This partition function is significantly different from the one computed at zero coupling. We find that it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Romuald A. Janik , Maciej Trzetrzelewski

We study correlators of $\frac{1}{2}$-BPS mesons in two examples of 4d SQCDs with $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal symmetry in the planar limit. We focus on the weakly coupled regime and obtain one-loop corrections to $n$-point meson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-24 Xi-Er Du , Zhongjie Huang , Bo Wang , Ellis Ye Yuan , Xinan Zhou