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Correlation functions of Wilson lines are relevant for describing the infrared structure of scattering amplitudes. We develop a new method for evaluating a wide class of such Wilson line integrals, and apply it to the calculation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Johannes M. Henn , Tobias Huber

We examine the double-trace spectrum of $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super Yang-Mills theory in the supergravity limit. At large $N$ double-trace operators exhibit degeneracy. By considering free-field and tree-level supergravity contributions to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 F. Aprile , J. M. Drummond , P. Heslop , H. Paul

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 apply analytic bootstrap techniques to the four-point correlator of fundamental fields in the Wilson-Fisher model. In an $\epsilon$-expansion crossing symmetry fixes the double discontinuity of the correlator in terms of CFT data at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Luis F. Alday , Johan Henriksson , Mark van Loon

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

We consider the defect CFT defined by a 't Hooft line embedded in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. By explicitly quantizing around the given background we exactly reproduce a prediction from S-duality for the correlators between the 't Hooft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-29 Charlotte Kristjansen , Konstantin Zarembo

Starting from the Lorentzian inversion formula, we derive a dispersion relation which computes a four-point function in 1d CFTs as an integral over its double discontinuity. The crossing symmetric kernel of the integral is given explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-16 Davide Bonomi , Valentina Forini

We study 3d CFTs with an $O(N)$ global symmetry using the conformal bootstrap for a system of mixed correlators. Specifically, we consider all nonvanishing scalar four-point functions containing the lowest dimension $O(N)$ vector $\phi_i$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-30 Filip Kos , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

Conformal field theory finds applications across diverse fields, from statistical systems at criticality to quantum gravity through the AdS/CFT correspondence. These theories are subject to strong constraints, enabling a systematic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-22 Julien Barrat

We argue that existing methods for the perturbative computation of anomalous dimensions and the disentanglement of mixing in N = 4 gauge theory can be considerably simplified, systematized and extended by focusing on the theory's dilatation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-23 N. Beisert , C. Kristjansen , M. Staudacher

We study a conformal field theory with cubic anisotropic symmetry in presence of a line defect. We compute the correlators of the low lying defect operators using Feynman diagrams and derive explicit expressions for the two, three and four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-24 Parijat Dey , Kausik Ghosh

We study the AdS/CFT correspondence with a brane extending in AdS, a setup which is dual to CFT in the presence of a defect. We focus on the correlation function of two local operators and the defect, which is the simplest observable with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-22 Aleix Gimenez-Grau

We study the $O(3)$ critical model and the free theory of a scalar triplet in the presence of a magnetic impurity. We use analytic bootstrap techniques to extract results in the $\varepsilon$-expansion. First, we extend by one order in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-12 Lorenzo Bianchi , Davide Bonomi , Elia de Sabbata , Aleix Gimenez-Grau

Surface operators are among the most important observables of the 6d $\mathcal{N} = (2,0)$ theory. Here we apply the tools of defect CFT to study local operator insertions into the 1/2-BPS plane. We first relate the 2-point function of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-01 Nadav Drukker , Malte Probst , Maxime Trépanier

We compute $1/\lambda$ corrections to the four-point functions of half-BPS operators in $SU(N)$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at large $N$ and large 't Hooft coupling $\lambda=g_\text{YM}^2 N$ using two methods. Firstly, we relate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Damon J. Binder , Shai M. Chester , Silviu S. Pufu , Yifan Wang

We apply the numerical bootstrap program to chiral operators in four-dimensional ${\mathcal N}=2$ SCFTs. In the first part of this work we study four-point functions in which all fields have the same conformal dimension. We give special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-12 Madalena Lemos , Pedro Liendo

We compute a set of correlation functions of operator insertions on the 1/8 BPS Wilson loop in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM by employing supersymmetric localization, OPE and the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization. These correlators exhibit a simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-09 Simone Giombi , Shota Komatsu

We use analytic bootstrap techniques for a CFT with an interface or a boundary. Exploiting the analytic structure of the bulk and boundary conformal blocks we extract the CFT data. We further constrain the CFT data by applying the equation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-21 Parijat Dey , Alexander Söderberg

We perform Monte Carlo calculation of correlation functions in 4d N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on R*S^3 in the planar limit. In order to circumvent the well-known problem of lattice SUSY, we adopt the idea of a novel large-N reduction, which…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-18 Masazumi Honda , Goro Ishiki , Sang-Woo Kim , Jun Nishimura , Asato Tsuchiya

We present two complementary approaches to calculating the 2-point function of stress tensors in the presence of a 1/2 BPS surface defect of the 6d $\mathcal{N} = (2,0)$ theories. First, we use analytical bootstrap techniques at large $N$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-12 Carlo Meneghelli , Maxime Trépanier