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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 two-point correlators in SU(N) gauge theories on R4 with N=2 supersymmetry and Nf massless hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation. Using localization on S4, we compute the leading perturbative corrections to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 M. Billo , F. Fucito , A. Lerda , J. F. Morales , Ya. S. Stanev , Congkao Wen

We study the large-charge sector of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory (SYM) with $SU(N)$ gauge group by constructing a special class of half-BPS heavy operators, termed "canonical operators". Such operators exhibit remarkable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-15 Augustus Brown , Francesco Galvagno , Alba Grassi , Cristoforo Iossa , Congkao Wen

We compute the spectrum of scaling dimensions of Coulomb branch operators in 4d rank-2 $\mathcal{N}{=}2$ superconformal field theories. Only a finite rational set of scaling dimensions is allowed. It is determined by using information about…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-13 Philip C. Argyres , Cody Long , Mario Martone

We study two-point correlation functions of chiral/anti-chiral operators in SU(N) $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories with massless hyper-multiplets in a representation $\mathcal{R}$ associated with a non-vanishing $\beta$-function. Using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-04 M. Billo , L. Griguolo , A. Lerda , A. Testa

We compute correlation functions of chiral primary operators in N=2 superconformal theories at large N using a construction based on supersymmetric localization recently developed by Gerchkovitz et al. We focus on N=4 SYM as well as on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Diego Rodriguez-Gomez , Jorge G. Russo

We consider extremal and non-extremal three-point functions of two giant gravitons and one point-like graviton using Schur polynomials in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and holographically, using a semiclassical Born-Infeld analysis as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Pawel Caputa , Robert de Mello Koch , Konstantinos Zoubos

We calculate some extremal and non-extremal four-point functions on the sphere of certain chiral primary operators for strings on AdS_3 x S^3 x T^4. The computation is done for small values of the spacetime cross-ratio where global SL(2)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-07 Carlos A. Cardona , Ingo Kirsch

We consider a class of N=2 conformal SU(N) SYM theories in four dimensions with matter in the fundamental, two-index symmetric and anti-symmetric representations, and study the corresponding matrix model provided by localization on a sphere…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 M. Beccaria , M. Billo , F. Galvagno , A. Hasan , A. Lerda

We show that extremal correlators of chiral primary operators in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with SU(N) gauge group are neither renormalised at first order in perturbation theory nor receive contribution from any instanton sector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Massimo Bianchi , Stefano Kovacs

We study a special class of four-point correlation functions of infinitely heavy half-BPS operators in planar N=4 SYM which admit factorization into a product of two octagon form factors. We demonstrate that these functions satisfy a system…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 A. V. Belitsky , G. P. Korchemsky

We study correlation functions of local operators and Wilson loop expectation values in the planar limit of a 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal ${\rm SU}(N)$ YM theory with hypermultiplets in the symmetric and antisymmetric representations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-06 Nikolay Bobev , Pieter-Jan De Smet , Xuao Zhang

Coulomb branches of vacua are the most universal moduli spaces that arise in local unitary interacting 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs). In these theories, $1/2$-BPS primaries parameterize the Coulomb branches and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-06 Matthew Buican

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

We generalize S-duality to N=2 superconformal field theories (SCFTs) with Coulomb branch operators of non-integer scaling dimension. As simple examples, we find minimal generalizations of the S-dualities discovered in SU(2) gauge theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Matthew Buican , Simone Giacomelli , Takahiro Nishinaka , Constantinos Papageorgakis

Detailed studies of four dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories (SCFT) defined by isolated complete intersection singularities are performed: we compute the Coulomb branch spectrum, Seiberg-Witten solutions and central charges. Most…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 Yifan Wang , Dan Xie , Stephen S. -T. Yau , Shing-Tung Yau

We study particular integrated correlation functions of two superconformal primary operators of the stress tensor multiplet in the presence of a half-BPS line defect labelled by electromagnetic charges $(p,q)$ in $\mathcal{N}=4$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-20 Daniele Dorigoni , Zhihao Duan , Daniele R. Pavarini , Congkao Wen , Haitian Xie

Recently exact agreement has been found between three-point correlators of chiral operators computed in string theory on AdS_3 x S^3 x T^4 with NS-NS flux and those computed in the symmetric orbifold CFT. However, it has also been shown…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-11 Marika Taylor

We study the 3-point functions of gauge-invariant scalar operators in four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal quiver theories using supersymmetric localization in the planar limit of a large number of colors. By exploiting a web of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 M. Billo , M. Frau , A. Lerda , A. Pini , P. Vallarino

We study correlation functions on the Coulomb branch of planar $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-Yang- Mills theory (SYM), and their relationship with integrability, the operator product expansion (OPE), the sum rule, the large charge expansion, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-12 Vyacheslav Ivanovskiy , Shota Komatsu , Victor Mishnyakov , Nikolay Terziev , Nikita Zaigraev , Konstantin Zarembo