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We present a conjecture for the normalisation of the twist two conformal partial waves in a double OPE limit of the four-point function of stress tensor multiplets in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory up to three loops. This contains…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-18 Burkhard Eden

Quantum corrections to three-point functions of scalar single trace operators in planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory are studied using integrability. At one loop, we find new algebraic structures that not only govern all two loop corrections…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-27 Nikolay Gromov , Pedro Vieira

We study three-point correlation functions of local operators in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM at weak coupling using integrability. We consider correlation functions involving two scalar BPS operators and an operator with spin, in the so…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Pedro Vieira , Tianheng Wang

We continue our study of large charge limits of the defect CFT defined by the half-BPS Wilson loop in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. In this paper, we compute $1/J$ corrections to the correlation function of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Simone Giombi , Shota Komatsu , Bendeguz Offertaler

I consider three-point functions of twist-one operators in ABJM at weak coupling. I compute the structure constant of correlators involving one twist-one un-protected operator and two protected ones for a few finite values of the spin, up…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Marco S. Bianchi

We study the structure constants of the ${\cal N}=1$ beta deformed theory perturbatively and at strong coupling. We show that the planar one loop corrections to the structure constants of single trace gauge invariant operators in the scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-13 Justin R. David , Abhishake Sadhukhan

We show that the BMN operators arise from the expansion of the Wilson loop in four-dimensional N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. The Wilson loop we consider is obtained from ``dimensional reduction'' of ten-dimensional N=1 super Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Akitsugu Miwa

We calculate form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at tree level and one loop using novel applications of recursion relations and unitarity. In particular, we determine the expression of the one-loop form factors…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-03 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini , Gang Yang

In the context of planar conformal gauge theory, we study five-point correlation functions between the interaction Lagrangian and four of the lightest single-trace, gauge-invariant scalar primaries. After performing two light-cone OPEs, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-16 Till Bargheer , Carlos Bercini , Bruno Fernandes , Vasco Gonçalves , Jeremy Mann

We study the correlators of bulk and defect half-BPS operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory with a Maldacena-Wilson line defect, focusing on the case involving one bulk and two defect local operators. We analyze the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-15 Daniele Artico , Julien Barrat , Yingxuan Xu

We study stringy fluctuations as a source for corrections to the Wilson loop as obtained from the superstrings on (adS_5 x S^5)/ N=4 SYM correspondence. We give a formal expression in terms of determinants of two dimensional operators for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefan Forste , Debashis Ghoshal , Stefan Theisen

This is the first of a series of two papers in which we study the one-dimensional defect CFT defined by insertions of local operators along a $\tfrac{1}{2}$-BPS Wilson line in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills. In this first paper we focus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-23 Pietro Ferrero , Carlo Meneghelli

We study the 1/2 BPS circular Wilson loop in four-dimensional SU(N), $N = 2$ SYM theories with massless hypermultiplets and non-vanishing $\beta$-function. Using super-symmetric localization on $S_4$ , we map the path-integral associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-22 Marco Billo' , Luca Griguolo , Alessandro Testa

Correlators of local operators inserted on a straight Wilson loop in a conformal gauge theory have the structure of a one-dimensional "defect" CFT. As was shown in arXiv:1706.00756, in the case of supersymmetric Wilson-Maldacena loop in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Matteo Beccaria , Simone Giombi , Arkady A. Tseytlin

We present a large new family of Wilson loop operators in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. For an arbitrary curve on the three dimensional sphere one can add certain scalar couplings to the Wilson loop so it preserves at least two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nadav Drukker , Simone Giombi , Riccardo Ricci , Diego Trancanelli

We study the three-point functions between two BPS and one non-BPS local gauge invariant operators in N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory. In particular we show, in explicit 1-loop examples, that the operator mixing discussed in arXiv:0810.0499…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 George Georgiou , Valeria L. Gili , Rodolfo Russo

Correlators of Wilson loop operators with O_4=Tr(F_{\mu\nu}^2+...) are computed in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory using the AdS/CFT correspondence. The results are compared with the leading order perturbative computations. As a consequence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Erickson , G. W. Semenoff , K. Zarembo

In the framework of the semiclassical approach, we compute the normalized structure constants in three-point correlation functions, when two of the vertex operators correspond to "heavy" string states, while the third vertex corresponds to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Plamen Bozhilov

We compute correlation functions of protected primaries on the $1/2$-BPS Wilson loop in ${\cal N}$ = 4 super Yang-Mills theory at weak coupling. We first perform direct perturbative computation at one loop in the planar limit and present…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Naoki Kiryu , Shota Komatsu

We propose that, in N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory, correlation functions of certain 1/8 BPS Wilson loops and local operators inserted on a S^2 in space-time may be computed in terms of analogous observables in the "zero-instanton" sector of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Simone Giombi , Vasily Pestun