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We find a massive simplification in the non-perturbative expression for the structure constant of Wilson lines with 3 cusps when expressed in terms of the key Quantum Spectral Curve quantities, namely Q-functions. Our calculation is done…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Andrea Cavaglià , Nikolay Gromov , Fedor Levkovich-Maslyuk

String solitons in AdS_5 contain information of N=4 SUSY Yang-Mills theories on the boundary. Recent proposals for rotating string solitons reproduce the spectrum for anomalous dimensions of Wilson operators for the boundary theory. There…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Minos Axenides , Emmanuel Floratos , Alex Kehagias

We study a class of near-BPS operators for a complex 2-parameter family of N=1 superconformal Yang-Mills theories that can be obtained by a Leigh-Strassler deformation of N=4 SYM theory. We identify these operators in the large N and large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Vasilis Niarchos , Nikolaos Prezas

In this paper, we discuss the construction of a map between weak (gauge) and strong (string) coupling degrees of freedom for the supersymmetric Wilson line-defect in the planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills. By analysing the Partition Functions at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-19 Julius Julius , Nika Sergeevna Sokolova

We compute for the first time the two-loop corrections to arbitrary n-gon lightlike Wilson loops in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, using efficient numerical methods. The calculation is motivated by the remarkable agreement between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-06-29 Charalampos Anastasiou , Andreas Brandhuber , Paul Heslop , Valentin V. Khoze , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

We study the structure constant of a single trace operator and two determinant operators in ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. Holographically such a quantity corresponds to the interaction vertex between a closed string and two open…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-28 Keun-Young Kim , Minkyoo Kim , Kyungsun Lee

We study string quantum corrections to the ratio of latitude and circular Wilson loops in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling. Conformal gauge for the corresponding minimal surface in AdS(5)xS(5) is singular and we show that an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Alessandra Cagnazzo , Daniel Medina-Rincon , Konstantin Zarembo

We consider the 1d CFT defined by the half-BPS Wilson line in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills. Using analytic bootstrap methods we derive the four-point function of the super-displacement operator at fourth order in a strong…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-10 Pietro Ferrero , Carlo Meneghelli

We compute the three-point structure constants for short primary operators of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory to leading order in the inverse coupling by mapping the problem to a flat-space string theory calculation. We check the validity of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-18 Till Bargheer , Joseph A. Minahan , Raul Pereira

We calculate the four-point function of $1/2$-BPS determinant operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM at next-to-leading order at weak coupling. We use two complementary methods recently developed for a class of determinant three-point functions:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Edoardo Vescovi

We present a three-loop O(g^6) calculation of the difference between the expectation values of Wilson loops evaluated in N=4 and superconformal N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group SU(N) using dimensional reduction. We find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-04 Roman Andree , Donovan Young

In this paper we study the expectation value of deformations of the circular Wilson loop in ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. The leading order deformation, known as the Bremsstrahlung function, can be obtained exactly from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-15 Michael Cooke , Amit Dekel , Nadav Drukker , Diego Trancanelli , Edoardo Vescovi

We develop analytical methods for computing the structure constant for three heavy operators, starting from the recently proposed hexagon approach. Such a structure constant is a semiclassical object, with the scale set by the inverse…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Yunfeng Jiang , Shota Komatsu , Ivan Kostov , Didina Serban

We study universal features of defect correlation functions in supersymmetric defect CFTs, focusing on four-point functions of the displacement supermultiplet. By perturbing the leading-order correlators at strong coupling, we derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-13 Riccardo Giordana Pozzi

Anomalous dimensions of high-twist Wilson operators in generic gauge theories occupy a band of width growing logarithmically with their conformal spin. We perform a systematic study of its fine structure in the autonomous SL(2) subsector of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 A. V. Belitsky , G. P. Korchemsky , R. S. Pasechnik

We perform exact computations of correlation functions of 1/2-BPS local operators and protected operator insertions on the 1/8-BPS Wilson loop in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. This generalizes the results of our previous paper arXiv:1802.05201,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Simone Giombi , Shota Komatsu

We perform an explicit two-loop calculation of the dilatation operator acting on single trace Wilson operators built from holomorphic scalar fields and an arbitrary number of covariant derivatives in N=2 and N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. V. Belitsky , G. P. Korchemsky , D. Müller

We study operator insertions into 1/2 BPS Wilson loops in N = 6 ABJM theory and investigate their two-point correlators. In this framework, the energy emitted by a heavy moving probe can be exactly obtained from some two-point coefficients…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-05 Lorenzo Bianchi , Luca Griguolo , Michelangelo Preti , Domenico Seminara

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

Motivated by the problem of understanding 3-point correlation functions of gauge-invariant operators in N =4 super Yang-Mills theory we consider correlators involving Wilson loops and a "light" operator with fixed quantum numbers. At…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-19 Luis F. Alday , Arkady A. Tseytlin