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We construct generating functions of five- and six-point correlators up to two loops at weak 't Hooft coupling in planar N=4 SYM. These generating functions unify the correlators of the lightest scalar operator in the stress-tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-01 Till Bargheer , Albert Bekov , Carlos Bercini , Frank Coronado

We describe a new approach to computing the chiral part of correlation functions of stress-tensor supermultiplets in N=4 SYM that relies on symmetries, analytic properties and the structure of the OPE only. We demonstrate that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Dmitry Chicherin , Reza Doobary , Burkhard Eden , Paul Heslop , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Emery Sokatchev

We initiate the study of four-point functions of large BPS operators at any value of the coupling. We do it by casting it as a sum over exchange of superconformal primaries and computing the structure constants using integrability. Along…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Benjamin Basso , Frank Coronado , Shota Komatsu , Ho Tat Lam , Pedro Vieira , De-liang Zhong

We compute three-point functions between one large classical operator and two large BPS operators at weak coupling. We consider operators made out of the scalars of N=4 SYM, dual to strings moving in the sphere. The three-point function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Nikolay Gromov , Amit Sever , Pedro Vieira

We study $S_N$-invariant four-point functions with two generic multi-cycle fields and two twist-2 fields, at the free orbifold point of the D1-D5 CFT. We derive the explicit factorization of these functions following from the action of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-27 Andre Alves Lima , G. M. Sotkov , M. Stanishkov

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 analyze the one-loop correction to the three-point function coefficient of scalar primary operators in N=4 SYM theory. By applying constraints from the superconformal symmetry, we demonstrate that the type of Feynman diagrams that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Kazumi Okuyama , Li-Sheng Tseng

Two- and three-point correlation functions of arbitrary protected operators are constructed in N=4 SYM using analytic superspace methods. The OPEs of two chiral primary multiplets are given. It is shown that the $n$-point functions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 P. J. Heslop , P. S. Howe

We present the full form of a four-point correlation function of large BPS operators in planar N = 4 Super Yang-Mills to any loop order. We do this by following a bootstrap philosophy based on three simple axioms pertaining to (i) the space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-06 Frank Coronado

A new derivation is given of four-point functions of charge $Q$ chiral primary multiplets in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. A compact formula, valid for arbitrary $Q$, is given which is manifestly superconformal and analytic in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 P. J. Heslop , P. S. Howe

We describe how to implement the conformal bootstrap program in the context of the embedding space OPE formalism introduced in previous work. To take maximal advantage of the known properties of the scalar conformal blocks for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-14 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Valentina Prilepina , Witold Skiba

By applying the stress-tensor-scalar operator product expansion (OPE) twice, we search for algebraic structures in $d=4$ conformal field theories (CFTs) with a pure Einstein gravity dual. We find that a rescaled mode operator defined by an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Kuo-Wei Huang

We compute three-point functions of general operators in the su(1|1) sector of planar N = 4 SYM in the weak coupling regime, both at tree-level and one-loop. Each operator is represented by a closed spin chain Bethe state characterized by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Joao Caetano , Thiago Fleury

We study the OPE of correlation functions of local operators in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. The considered operators have an explicit spacetime dependence that is defined by twisting the translation generators with certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-18 Till Bargheer

The properties of gauge-invariant composite operators and their correlation functions in N=4 SYM are discussed in the analytic superspace formalism. A complete classification of the different types of operators in the theory is given.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 P. J. Heslop , P. S. Howe

Basso, Komatsu and Vieira recently proposed an all-loop framework for the computation of three-point functions of single-trace operators of ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills, the "hexagon program". This proposal results in several remarkable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Burkhard Eden , Alessandro Sfondrini

The four-loop, two-point form factor contains the first non-planar correction to the lightlike cusp anomalous dimension. This anomalous dimension is a universal function which appears in many applications. Its planar part in N = 4 SYM is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-19 Rutger Boels , Bernd A. Kniehl , Gang Yang

We report on a systematic perturbative study of three-point functions in planar SU(N) N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at the one-loop level involving scalar field operators up to length five. For this we have computed a sample of 40 structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 George Georgiou , Valeria Gili , Andre Grossardt , Jan Plefka

We start a systematic study of quarter-BPS operators in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills with gauge group $\mathrm{SU}(N)$ making use of recently developed tools in conformal field theory. We adapt the technology of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Agnese Bissi , Giulia Fardelli , Andrea Manenti

In the first part, we concentrate on CFTs in coordinate space. We lay the foundations of Conformal Field Theory and we also demonstrate a method where by using the embedding formalism we can derive up to n-point scalar conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-26 Dimosthenis Theofilopoulos