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Extending the methods developed in our previous works (arXiv:1110.3949, arXiv:1205.6060), we compute the three-point functions at strong coupling of the non-BPS states with large quantum numbers corresponding to the composite operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-26 Yoichi Kazama , Shota Komatsu

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 a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-06 Plamen Bozhilov

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 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

Three-point functions of analytic (chiral primary) operators in N=4 Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions are calculated using the harmonic superspace formulation of this theory. In the case of the energy-momentum tensor multiplet anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 P. S. Howe , E. Sokatchev , P. C. West

The partition function of four dimensional Euclidean, non-supersymmetric SU(2) Yang--Mills theory is calculated in the perturbative and weak coupling regime i.e. in a small open ball about the flat connection (what we call the vicinity of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-11 Gabor Etesi

We consider the hexagonal Wilson loop dual to the six-point MHV amplitude in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. We apply constraints from the operator product expansion in the near-collinear limit to the symbol of the remainder function at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Lance J. Dixon , James M. Drummond , Johannes M. Henn

This work is devoted to the six-gluon scattering amplitude in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. At weak coupling, an appropriate high energy limit of the so-called remainder function, i.e. of the deviation from the BDS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-01 J. Bartels , J. Kotanski , V. Schomerus

We consider four-point functions of protected, double- and single-trace operators in the large central charge limit. We use superconformal symmetry to disentangle the contribution of protected operators in the partial wave decomposition.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-30 Agnese Bissi , Giulia Fardelli , Andrea Manenti

We continue the study of four-point correlation functions by the hexagon tessellation approach initiated in 1611.05436 and 1611.05577. We consider planar tree-level correlation functions in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Burkhard Eden , Yunfeng Jiang , Dennis le Plat , Alessandro Sfondrini

We determine the 4-point correlation function and amplitude in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to 12 loops. We find that the recently-introduced 'double-triangle' rule in fact implies the previously described square and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-21 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Song He , Canxin Shi , Yichao Tang

The three-loop four-point function of stress-tensor multiplets in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory contains two so far unknown, off-shell, conformal integrals, in addition to the known, ladder-type integrals. In this paper we evaluate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 James Drummond , Claude Duhr , Burkhard Eden , Paul Heslop , Jeffrey Pennington , Vladimir A. Smirnov

Employing a cutting-edge bootstrap method, we analytically compute the three-loop pentagonal Wilson loop with Lagrangian insertion in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. This object is conjectured to coincide with the maximally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn , Yongqun Xu , Shun-Qing Zhang , Yang Zhang

We study the correlation function of two circular Wilson loops at strong coupling in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, the problem maps to finding the minimal surface between two circles defined on the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Amit Dekel , Thomas Klose

We explore how to compute, classically at strong coupling, correlation functions of local operators corresponding to classical spinning string states. The picture we obtain is of `fattened' Witten diagrams, the evaluation of which turns out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Romuald A. Janik , Piotr Surowka , Andrzej Wereszczynski

Four-dimensional N-extended superconformal symmetry and correlation functions of quasi-primary superfields are studied within the superspace formalism. A superconformal Killing equation is derived and its solutions are classified in terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Jeong-Hyuck Park

We begin by defining general hypergeometric functions over finite fields and obtaining a finite field analogue of a classical symmetry in their complex counterparts. We give a geometric proof for the symmetry by constructing isomorphisms…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Akio Nakagawa

We study the asymptotic volume dependence of the heavy-heavy-light three-point functions in the $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super-Yang-Mills theory using the hexagon bootstrap approach, where the volume is the length of the heavy operator. We extend…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Yunfeng Jiang

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 construct orthogonality relations in the Separation of Variables framework for the sl(2) sector of planar N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Specifically, we find simple universal measures that make Q-functions of operators with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-01 Till Bargheer , Carlos Bercini , Andrea Cavaglià , Davide Lai , Paul Ryan