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We introduce a novel harmonic superspace for $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=6$ superconformal field theories that is tailor made for the study of correlation functions of BPS operators. We calculate a host of two- and three-point functions in full…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Pedro Liendo , Carlo Meneghelli , Vladimir Mitev

We introduce the analytic superspace formalism for six-dimensional $(N,0)$ superconformal field theories. Concentrating on the $(2,0)$ theory we write down the Ward identities for correlation functions in the theory and show how to solve…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 P. J. Heslop

We study the structure constants of two conformal primary operators and one spinning operator in planar $\mathcal{N} = 4$ Super-Yang-Mills theory using the hexagon formalism. By analytically continuing in the spin, we derive a formula for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-11 Benjamin Basso , Alessandro Georgoudis

We consider limits of $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory that approach BPS bounds. These limits result in non-relativistic near-BPS theories that describe the effective dynamics near the BPS bounds and upon quantization are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-08 Stefano Baiguera , Troels Harmark , Yang Lei , Nico Wintergerst

Four-point correlation functions are observables of significant interest in holographic field theories. We compute an infinite family of four-point correlation functions of operators in short multiplets of 4D N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-19 David Turton , Alexander Tyukov

We summarise recent work on superconformal field theories using analytic superspace. All operators of N=4 SYM can be given as unconstrained superfields on analytic superspace. We show how to write down operators as superfields on analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. J. Heslop

We consider four-point functions of protected, double- and single-trace operators in the large central charge limit. We use superconformal symmetry to disentangle the contribution of protected operators in the partial wave decomposition.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-30 Agnese Bissi , Giulia Fardelli , Andrea Manenti

Various aspects of the four point function for scalar fields in conformally invariant theories are analysed. This depends on an arbitrary function of two conformal invariants u,v. A recurrence relation for the function corresponding to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 F. A. Dolan , H. Osborn

Four-point correlation functions of hypermultiplet bilinear composites are analysed in N=2 superconformal field theory using the superconformal Ward identities and the analyticity properties of the composite operator superfields. It is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 B. U. Eden , P. S. Howe , A. Pickering , E. Sokatchev , P. C. West

We study the correlator of chiral primary operators in $\Ncal$=4 super Yang-Mills theory in large $N$ limit. Through the free fermion picture, we map the gauge group rank and R-charges in SYM to the Fermi level and tachyon momenta,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ta-Sheng Tai

The superconformal Ward identities combined with N=2 harmonic analyticity are used to evaluate two-loop four-point correlation functions of gauge-invariant operators in D=4, N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in terms of the well-known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 B. Eden , P. S. Howe , C. Schubert , E. Sokatchev , P. C. West

We construct interpolating functions fully compatible with S-duality. We then consider the problem of resumming perturbative expansions for anomalous dimensions of low twist non-protected operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. When the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Luis F. Alday , Agnese Bissi

We compute two-point functions of chiral operators Tr(\Phi^k) for any k, in {\cal N}=4 supersymmetric SU(N) Yang-Mills theory. We find that up to the order g^4 the perturbative corrections to the correlators vanish for all N. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Penati , A. Santambrogio , D. Zanon

We study integrability of fishnet-type Feynman graphs arising in planar four-dimensional bi-scalar chiral theory recently proposed in arXiv:1512.06704 as a special double scaling limit of gamma-deformed $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Nikolay Gromov , Vladimir Kazakov , Gregory Korchemsky , Stefano Negro , Grigory Sizov

We study the two-point correlation functions of chiral/anti-chiral operators in $N=2$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories on $R^4$ with gauge group SU(N) and $N_f$ massless hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation. We compute them…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 M. Billo , F. Fucito , G. P. Korchemsky , A. Lerda , J. F. Morales

In this work we initiate the conformal bootstrap program for ${\mathcal N}=2$ superconformal field theories in four dimensions. We promote an abstract operator-algebraic viewpoint in order to unify the description of Lagrangian and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-25 Christopher Beem , Madalena Lemos , Pedro Liendo , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

We study the conformal properties of pseudo-scalar (parity-odd) operators in four-dimensional field theory. Such operators include the topological term in a gauge theory and the Yukawa coupling. We show that a single operator of this type…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-26 Dmitry Chicherin , Emery Sokatchev

Chiral primary operators annihilated by a quarter of the supercharges are constructed in the four dimensional N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory with gauge group SU(N). These quarter-BPS operators share many non-renormalization properties with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Anton V. Ryzhov

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

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