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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 consider four-point correlation functions of protected single-trace scalar operators in planar N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM). We conjecture that all loop corrections derive from an integrand which enjoys a ten-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Simon Caron-Huot , Frank Coronado

We analyse the CFT-data of planar 4D $\mathcal{N} = 4$ Super-Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling. By combining spectral data extracted from integrability, with recent advances in computing the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude, we extract…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-19 Julius Julius , Nika Sokolova

We compute two-point functions of chiral operators Tr \Phi^3 in {\cal N}=4 SU(N) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to the order g^4 in perturbation theory. We perform explicit calculations using {\cal N}=1 superspace techniques and find that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 S. Penati , A. Santambrogio , D. Zanon

Form factors in planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory admit a type of non-perturbative operator product expansion (OPE), as we have recently shown in arXiv:2009.11297. This expansion is based on a decomposition of the dual periodic Wilson loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Amit Sever , Alexander G. Tumanov , Matthias Wilhelm

Near lightcone correlators are dominated by operators with the lowest twist. We consider the contributions of such leading lowest twist multi-stress tensor operators to a heavy-heavy-light-light correlator in a CFT of any even…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Robin Karlsson , Manuela Kulaxizi , Andrei Parnachev , Petar Tadić

One-instanton contributions to the correlation functions of two gauge-invariant single-trace operators in N=4 SU(N) Yang-Mills theory are studied in semi-classical approximation in the BMN limit. The most straightforward examples involve…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael B. Green , Stefano Kovacs , Aninda Sinha

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

The operator product expansion in four-dimensional superconformal field theory is discussed. The OPE takes a particularly simple form for chiral operators, in $N=1$ and $N=2$, and for analytic operators, in $N=2$ and $N=4$. It is argued…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 P. S. Howe , P. C. West

Higher-point functions of scalar operators are a rich observable in CFTs, as they contain OPE data involving multiple spinning operators. We derive the lightcone blocks for five- and six-point functions in the snowflake channel and use them…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-05 António Antunes , Miguel S. Costa , Vasco Goncalves , Joao Vilas Boas

We study the behaviour of the conformal block expansions of scalar fivepoint Lorentzian conformal correlators in the limit where multiple cross ratios approach zero. Since this limit is controlled by intermediate operators with large spin,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Pulkit Agarwal

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

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

BMN operators are characterized by the fact that they have infinite R-charge and finite anomalous dimension in the BMN double scaling limit. Using this fact, we show that the BMN operators close under operator product expansion and form a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Chong-Sun Chu , Valentin V. Khoze , Gabriele Travaglini

The Operator Product Expansion is a useful tool to represent correlation functions. In this note we extend Conformal Regge theory to provide an exact OPE representation of Lorenzian four-point correlators in conformal field theory, valid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Simon Caron-Huot , Joshua Sandor

We consider the $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal quiver gauge theory obtained by a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ orbifold of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills (SYM). By exploiting supersymmetric localization, we study the integrated correlator of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-08 Alessandro Pini , Paolo Vallarino

We consider operators in N=4 SYM theory which are dual, at strong coupling, to classical strings rotating in S^5. Three point correlation functions of such operators factorize into a universal contribution coming from the AdS part of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Romuald A. Janik , Andrzej Wereszczynski

We construct a twistor space action for N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and show that it is equivalent to its four dimensional spacetime counterpart at the level of perturbation theory. We compare our partition function to the original…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Rutger Boels , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

We develop bootstrap methods for mixed heavy-light four-point correlators $\langle GGOO\rangle$ in $\mathcal N=4$ super-Yang--Mills theory at large $N$, where $O\equiv {\cal O}_2$ is the chiral primary operator in the stress-tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Song He , Canxin Shi , Yichao Tang , Congkao Wen

The OPE of two N=2 R-symmetry current (short) multiplets is determined by the possible superspace three-point functions that two such multiplets can form with a third, a priori long multiplet. We show that the shortness conditions on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Arutyunov , B. Eden , E. Sokatchev