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We bootstrap tree-level supergravity four-point correlators on AdS$_5\times$S$^5$ with one external half-BPS double-particle operator and three half-BPS single-particle operators. Our only input is the consistency of the operator product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-23 Francesco Aprile , Stefano Giusto , Rodolfo Russo , Joao Vilas Boas

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

We use holography to study correlation functions of local operators in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories arising on the world-volume of D$p$-branes in the large-$N$ and strong-coupling limit. The relevant supergravity backgrounds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-23 Nikolay Bobev , Guillermo Mera Álvarez , Hynek Paul

We derive a manifestly superconformal expression for the leading-order two-point functions of all single trace chiral primary operators in 4d $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory with a co-dimension one Nahm pole defect. Notably, our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-07 Jonah Baerman , Adam Chalabi , Charlotte Kristjansen

We study three-point functions of operators on the $1/2$ BPS Wilson loop in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. The operators we consider are "defect changing operators", which change the scalar coupled to the Wilson loop. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Minkyoo Kim , Naoki Kiryu , Shota Komatsu , Takuya Nishimura

We study correlation functions of local operator insertions on the 1/2-BPS Wilson line in ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. These correlation functions are constrained by the 1d superconformal symmetry preserved by the 1/2-BPS Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-20 Simone Giombi , Radu Roiban , Arkady A. Tseytlin

We obtain the planar correlation function of four half-BPS operators of arbitrary weights, up to three loops. Our method exploits only elementary properties of the integrand of the planar correlator, such as its symmetries and singularity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Dmitry Chicherin , James Drummond , Paul Heslop , Emery Sokatchev

We study the conformal bootstrap of 1D CFTs on the straight Maldacena-Wilson line in 4D ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. We introduce an improved truncation scheme with an 'OPE tail' approximation and use it to reproduce the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-06 V. Niarchos , C. Papageorgakis , P. Richmond , A. G. Stapleton , M. Woolley

We study the correlation function between one single-trace scalar operator and a circular Wilson loop in the $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theory with gauge group $SU(N)$ and matter transforming in the symmetric and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-19 Alessandro Pini , Paolo Vallarino

We consider two four-dimensional SCFTs with gauge group $Sp(N)$: the $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory and the $\mathcal{N}=2$ theory with four hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation and one hypermultiplet in the rank-2 antisymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-10 Lorenzo De Lillo , Marialuisa Frau , Alessandro Pini

We consider a conformal field theory in the presence of a boundary, and explain how two-point correlators of mixed bulk-local operators can be bootstrapped by exploiting the analytical structure of the conformal blocks. This yields the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-06 Alexander Söderberg Rousu

We continue to develop Bootstrability -- a method merging Integrability and Conformal Bootstrap to extract CFT data in integrable conformal gauge theories such as $\mathcal{N}$=4 SYM. In this paper, we consider the 1D defect CFT defined on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-08 Andrea Cavaglià , Nikolay Gromov , Julius Julius , Michelangelo Preti

We study one-point functions of non-BPS single-trace operators on the Coulomb branch of planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Holography relates them to overlaps between on-shell closed string states and a boundary state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-19 Frank Coronado , Shota Komatsu , Konstantin Zarembo

We present a dispersion relation for defect CFT that reconstructs two-point functions in the presence of a defect as an integral of a single discontinuity. The main virtue of this formula is that it streamlines explicit bootstrap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Julien Barrat , Aleix Gimenez-Grau , Pedro Liendo

We perform a numerical bootstrap study of the mixed correlator system containing the half-BPS operators of dimension two and three in $\mathcal N = 4$ Super Yang-Mills. This setup improves on previous works in the literature that only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-02 Agnese Bissi , Andrea Manenti , Alessandro Vichi

We propose a nonperturbative framework to study general correlation functions of single-trace operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at large $N$. The basic strategy is to decompose them into fundamental building…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Thiago Fleury , Shota Komatsu

We apply the analytic conformal bootstrap method to study weakly coupled conformal gauge theories in four dimensions. We employ twist conformal blocks to find the most general form of the one-loop four-point correlation function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Johan Henriksson , Tomasz Lukowski

We revisit the calculation of holographic correlators for eleven-dimensional supergravity on $AdS_7\times S^4$. Our methods rely entirely on symmetry and eschew detailed knowledge of the supergravity effective action. By an extension of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Leonardo Rastelli , Xinan Zhou

We introduce a nonperturbative approach to correlation functions of two determinant operators and one non-protected single-trace operator in planar N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Based on the gauge/string duality, we propose that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-13 Yunfeng Jiang , Shota Komatsu , Edoardo Vescovi

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