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The relation between the dilatation operator of N=4 Yang-Mills theory and integrable spin chains makes it possible to compute the one-loop anomalous dimensions of all operators in the theory. In this paper we show how to apply the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Radu Roiban , Anastasia Volovich

We prove that in the limit when its insertion points become pairwise null-separated, the ratio of certain n-point correlation functions in N=4 SYM is equal to a supersymmetric Wilson loop on twistor space, acting in the adjoint…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Tim Adamo , Mathew Bullimore , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

We present an integrability-based conjecture for the three-point functions of single-trace operators in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at finite coupling, in the case where two operators are protected. Our proposal is based…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Benjamin Basso , Alessandro Georgoudis , Arthur Klemenchuk Sueiro

We present a new method for computing the Konishi anomalous dimension in N=4 SYM at weak coupling. It does not rely on the conventional Feynman diagram technique and is not restricted to the planar limit. It is based on the OPE analysis of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Burkhard Eden , Paul Heslop , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Emery Sokatchev

We develop a semiclassical framework to determine scaling dimensions of neutral composite operators in scalar conformal field theories. For the critical Ising $\lambda\phi^4$ theory in $d=4-\epsilon$, we obtain the full spectrum of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-12 Oleg Antipin , Jahmall Bersini , Jacob Hafjall , Giulia Muco , Francesco Sannino

We consider circular Wilson loops in a defect version of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory which is dual to the D3-D5 brane system with $k$ units of flux. When the loops are parallel to the defect, we can construct both BPS and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 S. Bonansea , S. Davoli , L. Griguolo , D. Seminara

The sl(2) sector of N=4 SYM theory has been much studied and the anomalous dimensions of those operators are well known. Nevertheless, many interesting operators are not included in this sector. We consider a class of twist operators beyond…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-27 CarloAlberto Ratti , Matteo Beccaria , Guido Macorini

We present the analytic calculation of all master integrals for 3-, 4-, and 5-particle semi-inclusive cuts of four-loop massless propagators by means of differential equations. We fix the integration constants by reducing the semi-inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-26 Vitaly Magerya , Levente Fekésházy

Exact expressions for certain integrated correlators of four half-BPS operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group $SU(N)$ have been recently obtained thanks to a beautiful interplay between supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-17 Daniele Dorigoni , Rudolfs Treilis

Using integrability techniques, we compute four-point functions of single trace gauge-invariant operators in N=4 SYM to leading order at weak coupling. Our results are valid for operators of arbitrary size. In particular, we study the limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-11 Joao Caetano , Jorge Escobedo

We show that the two-point function of protected bi-scalar operators in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM evaluated in dimensional regularization exhibits a uniform degree of transcendentality up to three-loop order. We conjecture that this property holds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-13 Marco S. Bianchi

We consider a set of half-BPS operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory which are appropriate for describing single-particle states of superstring theory on AdS${}_5 \times S^5$. These single-particle operators are defined to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 F. Aprile , J. M. Drummond , P. Heslop , H. Paul , F. Sanfilippo , M. Santagata , A. Stewart

We continue our study of the correlators of a recently discovered family of BPS Wilson loops in N=4 supersymmetric U(N) Yang-Mills theory. We perform explicit computations at weak coupling by means of analytical and numerical methods…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-23 Antonio Bassetto , Luca Griguolo , Fabrizio Pucci , Domenico Seminara , Shiyamala Thambyahpillai , Donovan Young

Higher-point correlation functions encode the data of infinitely many 4-point correlators in conformal field theory (CFT). In this paper, we develop new tools to efficiently extract this data from multi-point crossing equations. Concretely,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 António Antunes , Sebastian Harris , Apratim Kaviraj

We report on the complete OPE series for the 6-gluon MHV and NMHV amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory. Namely, we provide a finite coupling prediction for all the terms in the expansion of these amplitudes around the collinear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Benjamin Basso , Amit Sever , Pedro Vieira

We study event shapes in N=4 SYM describing the angular distribution of energy and R-charge in the final states created by the simplest half-BPS scalar operator. Applying the approach developed in the companion paper arXiv:1309.0769, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 A. V. Belitsky , S. Hohenegger , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev , A. Zhiboedov

We continue the study of the duality between super-correlators and scattering super-amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM. We provide a number of further examples supporting the conjectured duality relation between these two seemingly different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Burkhard Eden , Paul Heslop , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Emery Sokatchev

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 compute two-point functions of lowest weight operators at the next-to-leading order in the couplings for the beta-deformed N=4 SYM. In particular we focus on the CPO Tr(Phi_1^2) and the operator Tr(Phi_1 Phi_2) not presently listed as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Silvia Penati , Alberto Santambrogio , Daniela Zanon

We study the structure of the four-point correlation function of the lowest-dimension 1/2 BPS operators (stress-tensor multiplets) in the (2,0) six-dimensional theory. We first discuss the superconformal Ward identities and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 G. Arutyunov , E. Sokatchev